The Biden administration is working to salvage its credibility on climate change by shoring up key provisions in a troubled budget bill and flexing its muscle to show its ability to act without the help of Congress to cut emissions
. Failure to enact an ambitious set of policies could undermine Biden’s ability to broker a deal aimed at averting catastrophic warming.
“We’re just going to have to work hard on a continuing basis to achieve that goal in this package and what the administration can do,” said Sen. Edward J. Markey in an interview. Frans Berkhout, professor of environment, society and climate at King’s College London, said in an interview that while European officials might be more understanding of the domestic political constraints that Biden faces, Russia and China would probably use any legislative failings to their advantage.
Markey, who spearheaded a climate bill through the House more than a decade ago only to watch it later die in the Democrat-controlled Senate, is hoping to avoid a similar fate this time. “We just have to make sure emissions reductions, jobs and justice are at the heart of any package we pass.
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