How Joe Biden's Climate Plan Could Be Transformative
providing cities with a population of 100,000 or more with zero-emissions public transportation like light rail, electric buses, and infrastructure for bicyclists
Funding a new Advanced Research Projects Agency on climate, to be called ARPA-C, to develop transformative clean energy tech“The importance of Biden’s commitment that 40 percent of the investments — more than $500 billion — will be going directly to environmental-justice communities can’t be overstated,” says Varshini Prakash, the co-founder and executive director of the Sunrise Movement, who was part of a task force that helped the Biden campaign revise his climate plan.
“Ignoring fracking might be politically viable right now, but it’s not viable in any other real way — especially for communities of color,” says Gunn-Wright. “Fossil-fuel pollution is a racial-justice issue.” But Biden has clearly decided that the political risks of a ban on fracking — especially in big gas-rich states like Texas and Pennsylvania — are too high to bear during an economic meltdown.
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