United States nears first major steps to control CO2 emissions

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/24/us-congress-nears-first-major-steps-to-control-co2-emissions

As scientists raise alarm on global warming, the US is close to adopting sweeping green energy and emissions measures.

Wildfires burn in the US West for a fourth consecutive summer as Washington, DC strives to adopt new climate policies [David Swanson/Reuters]
Wildfires burn in the US West for a fourth consecutive summer as Washington, DC strives to adopt new climate policies [David Swanson/Reuters]

ByWilliam Roberts24 Aug 2021

The United States is preparing to adopt a raft of new energy policies that will for the first time put the US – the world’s second-worst polluter after China – on a path to meeting its pledge tocut greenhouse emissionsin half by 2035.

In a series of measures pending on Tuesday before the US Congress and new directives by the Biden administration, the US economy would begin a broad shift to electric vehicles, solar and wind with reductions in carbon pollution from fossil fuels.KEEP READINGUN climate report ‘code red for humanity’: Guterres‘World War Zero’: Biden names John Kerry…

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