Governors' Wind Energy Coalition
The Battle Lines Are Forming in Biden’s Climate Push
Source: By Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman, New York Times • Posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2021
The president is moving rapidly to address global warming, with unlikely allies backing him and huge hurdles, some from his own party, directly ahead.
Doug Mills/The New York Times
WASHINGTON — As President Biden prepares an ambitious effort to confront climate change, powerful and surprising forces are arrayed at his back.
Automakers are coming to accept that much higher fuel economy standards are their future; large oil and gas companies have said some curbs on greenhouse pollution lifted by former President Donald J. Trump should be reimposed; shareholders are demanding corporations acknowledge and prepare for a warmer, more volatile future, and a youth movement is driving the Democratic Party to go big to confront the issue.