Source: Benjamin J. Hulac, ROLL CALL, 11/1/21


For the four years of the Trump administration, American officials would attend United Nations climate talks, engaging at a perfunctory level to adhere to their obligations under the Paris climate agreement. Fast forward a year and the Biden administration has made a commitment under that deal to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least half by the end of the decade, backed up in that pledge by sweeping legislation that Democratic leadership and the White House are pushing to pass in Congress.

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