However, it will be a difficult challenge to complete.
Nathan Hultmann, director of the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland and other energy experts, described the 50 percent goal as attainable, but only Mr. Holtman described it as “very important action in all areas of the American economy.”
The credibility of Mr. Biden’s pledge rests on his ability to implement a series of aggressive new domestic policies designed to reduce emissions, particularly from the country’s two largest sources of greenhouse pollution, cars and power plants To reduce emissions.
Ms. McCarthy is working with the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation to draft new regulations on smokestacks and automobile tailpipes that may be made public by this summer.
But other countries are skeptical of the durability of such regulations, given their experience with the Trump administration. As head of the Environmental Protection Agency in the Obama administration, Ms. McCarthy wrote similar rules, only to see them diagonally.
Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geoscience and international affairs at Princeton University, said “the most important part of everything they do is to make sure it is sustainable”. “We really need to show in some very concrete way that the details cannot be changed at once and we don’t have that.”
The administration is trying to pursue a $ 2.3 trillion infrastructure package through Congress, which includes plans to spend heavily on projects such as electric vehicle charging stations and expanding transmission lines for wind and solar power.
Many Democrats expect the plan to include a mandatory order for power companies to generate a certain percentage of their electricity from wind and solar, a law that describes a transition away from fossil fuels to the future Cannot be undone by the President of.
