Without Trump around to hold them together these folks are going to tear each other apart.
The Hill (12/14/20) column: "The selection of Brian Deese to direct the National Economic Council (NEC) places a spotlight on some of the conflicting commitments within the Biden administration. Bowing to pressure from progressive climate activists, Biden pledged last July to pursue an aggressive climate plan that would eliminate fossil fuels by 2035. The selection of Deese — the current head of sustainable investing at BlackRock and a former Obama adviser behind some of that administration’s most notable climate policies — signals Biden’s willingness to use economic policy as an engine for pursuing his plan. But it puts Deese in a tough spot, too. For all his green bona fides, Deese, who is already receiving vocal criticism from climate purists, can’t escape fiscal realities: an aggressive attempt to decarbonize by 2035 would spell disaster for the economy, which Deese has promised to revitalize. A recent report from the University of California, Berkeley, known as the 2035 Report, offers a glimpse of an America decarbonized in the next 15 years. But it betrays, too, the extent to which its own goals are both unfeasible and at odds with economic health...What’s not for Deese and the NEC to like? Plenty. In 2019, for example, hydrocarbons accounted for a vast majority of electricity generation in the U.S. Despite billions of dollars in subsidies, wind and solar power provided less than 10 percent."
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"President-elect Joe Biden has said that reentering the Paris Agreement is a top priority, but one has to wonder why. The economic consequences of rejoining the Paris Agreement will be severe, hurting consumers, businesses, and workers because of dramatic steps that will need to be taken to comply with the carbon emissions reduction target."
– Jason Pye, FreedomWorks
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