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Why won't Joe Biden let ethanol die already?
1 month ago | By Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
President Joe Biden campaigned on an ambitious plan to tackle climate change with a “clean energy revolution,” including incentives to phase out gas-powered cars in favor of electric ones. The growing consensus among climate experts is that to slash carbon emissions quickly enough, we need to eliminate as much air-fouling combustion as possible while expanding wind and solar energy to power the grid. But a key aspect of Biden's agenda contradicts this push: He's vowed to...
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