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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a wide-ranging climate bill on Tuesday that embraces President Joe Biden’s goals to curb climate change including decarbonizing the electric grid by 2035.
FILE PHOTO: A wind farm is shown in Movave, California, U.S., November 8, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/
Introduced by Representatives Frank Pallone, Paul Tonko and Bobby Rush, and incorporating input from the Biden administration, the bill includes a federal clean electricity standard requiring a percentage of retail power sales to come from sources that produce little or no carbon emissions.
The Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s Future Act, or CLEAN, requires 80% clean electricity by 2030 and 100% by 2035.
US takes step towards 2050 net-zero target with sweeping climate bill
A wide-ranging climate bill has been introduced to the US House of Representatives this week that, if passed, will commit the nation to net-zero by 2050.
The IPCC has stated that achieving the Paris Agreement s 1.5C pathway will require net global emissions to reach zero by 2050
The Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s Future Act, also known as the CLEAN Act, is headlined by the long-term climate target and also contains targets for the highest-emitting sectors, including energy and transport, that will become legally binding.
On energy, the CLEAN Act would require the proportion of ‘clean’ generation in the electricity mix to rise to 80% by 2030. ‘Clean’ generation is defined as renewable and nuclear. By 2035, the US will cease using fossil fuels to produce electricity if the Act passes.
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