The far-reaching plan to reduce the trade bloc’s carbon footprint includes tougher mandates for automakers, steel makers, airlines, energy producers and other industries.
Democrats hope to include climate and clean energy in a second bill. It could be Biden’s last chance to pass major global warming legislation.
To slow global warming, we need to electrify vast parts of our economy and power it with clean energy.
A swath of recommendations calls for more investments, new supply chains and less reliance on other countries for crucial goods.
New York City's sanitation department unveiled a fully electric street sweeper last week.
A race is on to produce lithium in the United States, but competing projects are taking very different approaches to extracting the vital raw material. Some might not be very green.
Hitting the targets could require a rapid shift to electric vehicles, the expansion of forests nationwide, development of complex new carbon-capture technology and many other changes, researchers said.
To slow down climate change, new coal projects need to end. A global forecast this week shows demand rising sharply.
The new president has promised to take the lead on climate. His plan does not disappoint.
For decades, Democrats have countered opposition to "job-killing" environmental regulation by saying combatting climate change would create well-paying new jobs. President Biden is betting on it.