NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO • November 8, 2020
In his campaign for president, Joe Biden proposed the most aggressive planto tackle climate change of any major party nominee and made climate justice part of his closing argument. But his goal of making the U.S. carbon neutral by 2050 relies on major action from a Democrat-controlled Congress, which does not appear likely — or is at least not certain, pending the outcome of two runoff Senate races in Georgia in January. "It won't be as ambitious, no two ways about it," says Gene Karpinski, president of the League of Conservation Voters. Still, he and others think Biden will be able to take meaningful executive action and possibly forge some compromise even if the Senate continues to be controlled by coal-friendly Republican Mitch McConnell.