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Are you urging your lawmakers to support the Biden infrastructure bill?
You should! Check out the "Clean Electricity Standard" in it -- which is explained a bit after 15:00 in this episode of "The Daily podcast.
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction
nytimes.com/2021/04/27/pod…
Are you urging your lawmakers to support the Biden infrastructure bill?
You should! Check out the "Clean Electricity Standard" in it -- which is explained a bit after 15:00 in this episode of "The Daily podcast.
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction
nytimes.com/2021/04/27/pod…
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The Clean Electricity Standard "will totally change the fate of the US energy economy and how the rest of the world perceives the US on climate change." ~@CoralMDavenport
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The Clean Electricity Standard "will totally change the fate of the US energy economy and how the rest of the world perceives the US on climate change." ~@CoralMDavenport
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The Clean Electricity Standard, in the Biden infrastructure bill, would be a federal mandate that would call for 80% of electricity generated in US to come from Zero Carbon electricity sources by 2030….
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“…if they can get that language thru ... it would transform the US energy economy…It would lead to the closure of pretty much every fossil fuel power plant as we know it. And it would lead to the drastic reduction of US emissions.” ~@CoralMDavenport
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“…has there ever been anything like this {{the Clean Electricity Standard}}? The answer is yes at the state level.
About half the states do have state-level laws like this… There’s a lot of Republican states that have state-level laws like this.” ~@CoralMDavenport
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About half the states do have state-level laws like this… There’s a lot of Republican states that have state-level laws like this.” ~@CoralMDavenport
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“If the US pulls this off {{the Clean Electricity Standard}}, I think that we are likely to see a significant shift in the politics of climate change” ~@CoralMDavenport
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#ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction
“If the US pulls this off {{the Clean Electricity Standard}}, I think that we are likely to see a significant shift in the politics of climate change” ~@CoralMDavenport
6/6
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction
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