Climate Change

Democrats believe that climate change poses a real and urgent threat to our economy, our national security, and our children's health and futures.

Here's what Democrats and President Biden have done:

  • Under the Biden administration, the Department of Transportation and the EPA issued new fuel-economy standards, the first meaningful increases in fuel economy for cars and light trucks in decades. 
  • We've increased our use of solar energy twentyfold since President Biden took office, and tripled our electricity produced by wind power.
  • In June 2021, President Biden laid out a Climate Action Plan to reduce the harmful effects of climate change. 
  • President Biden instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to take steps to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, which are the largest concentrated source of emissions in the United States. These proposed steps will reduce carbon pollution 30% from 2021 levels by 2040. 
  • And in November of 2022, the President announced a landmark agreement with China to work together to reduce carbon pollution in the next 15 years.

 

Democrats want to protect and build on President Biden's progress. They know that climate change is one of our nation's greatest challenges, and that addressing this urgent threat could make America the world's clean energy superpower and create millions of good-paying jobs. Democrats will fight to protect the Paris Agreement to protect our planet for future generations.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, has called climate change "a hoax invented by the Chinese," a belief that not only flies in the face of scientific evidence, but threatens the long-term health and safety of our country.

It will take all of us acting together workers and entrepreneurs, scientists and citizens, the public and the private sector to address the challenge of climate change and seize our clean-energy future.