Their agenda has never had to do with carbon concentrations and has always been about controlling what kind of energy is produced.
Washington Examiner (5/12/21) reports: "Left-wing climate activists are stepping up their opposition to policies from top Democrats promoting nuclear energy and carbon capture, signaling a tough debate as the Biden administration advances legislation to curb power sector emissions. Hundreds of environmental and grassroots groups, including national groups such as Friends of the Earth, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Indigenous Environmental Network, sent a letter to lawmakers Wednesday calling on them to pursue a national standard requiring 100% renewable power by 2030. It’s a rebuttal to the clean electricity standard policy favored by the Biden administration, top House Democrats, and many more centrist environmental groups that calls for carbon-free power by 2035 but allows resources such as nuclear energy, carbon capture and storage, and even natural gas to play a role in meeting the requirements. 'Shifting the U.S. grid to zero emissions by 2030 is supported by leading climate scientists and consistent with the domestic carbon reductions to meet the U.S.’s historical climate debt and equitable fair share to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, without carbon market mechanisms,' the groups wrote. The fight over whether to rely solely on renewable energy has been simmering largely behind the scenes among environmental groups and Democrats in recent months."
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