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HOW HARD IT WILL BE FOR BIDEN: President
Joe Biden’s new pledge for the U.S. to cut its economy-wide emissions 50% to 52% by 2030 —
unveiled at his climate summit this morning — means largely eliminating coal from electricity, reducing natural gas use significantly, and definitely no new gas plants without carbon capture, according to various recent analyses we’ve reviewed.
We’d also have to increase clean energy sources to more than double today’s share.