OPINION: Move toward net zero carbon is no climate panacea - Lewiston Morning Tribune
OPINION: Move toward net zero carbon is no climate panacea | Opinion and Editorials | Lewiston Tribune | lmtribune.com
In the very near future, in the name of combating climate change, you may not be able to buy a gas- or diesel-powered vehicle.
Spurred on by well-funded and politically powerful environmental organizations, the Biden administration and some other countries around the world are making massive commitments to rapidly decarbonize their economies. They, along with climate advocates in the United Nations, academia and the news media, are claiming that “settled science” demands a complete change in our society. That means moving our world to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 to avoid a theoretical human-caused worldwide climate disaster.
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More than 30 years after the last major update of the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Supreme Court has upended the ability of Congress to give the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies broad scope to combat air pollution, including the emission of greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, further Biden administration efforts to limit emissions face opposition in the courts.