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After declining for several years due to smart policies and cleaner fuels, carbon dioxide pollution from U.S. power generation and industry ticked back up in 2018. That’s bad news—and there’s no question that this dangerous increase has been aided and abetted by the Trump administration’s rollback of climate and clean air protections.
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and a third of the Senate today introduced the Clean Economy Act, which would sharply reduce climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions, and promote American competitiveness, healthy communities and a growing economy.
A group of mostly Democratic senators has introduced a bill that would require the U.S. to phase out carbon emissions by 2050, placing their faith almost entirely in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to carry out the process.
Looking at the above photo of me after a climate meeting in Paris in 2017 — it feels like forever ago. It’s hard to believe we’re coming up on four years since the climate agreement was adopted during international negotiations in Paris in 2015.