This is just one element of the broader fight for just policies," a statement from Ocasio-Cortez's office said.In March, just before his final debate against Sanders, Biden adopted a modified "free college" program that would eliminate all costs for students from families with a combined income below $125,000 attending public colleges and universities.
When I think about climate change, the word I think of is jobs, good paying union jobs that will put Americans to work, making the air cleaner for our kids to breathe, restoring our crumbling roads, and bridges, and ports, making it faster, cheaper and cleaner to transport American made goods all across the country and around the world,” the former vice president said.Biden vowed to undo everything Trump has done in regard to climate issues.But the Trump campaign slammed Biden’s proposals.“We’re going to reverse Trump’s rollbacks of 100 public health and environmental rules, and then forge a path to greater ambition. “When Donald Trump thinks about climate change, the only word he can muster is hoax. Now, she can add "task force co-chair" to that list. Biden’s climate and environmental justice proposal will make a federal investment of $1.7 trillion over the next ten years, leveraging additional private sector and state and local investments to total to more than $5 trillion. And they thought we’d all buy it? Supposedly Moderate Biden Names AOC As A Co-Chair Of His Climate Change Task Force. Candidate Biden’s new $2 trillion Climate Change and Environmental Justice plan sounds a lot more like AOC than your typical campaign proposal. ""I'm working with Bernie and with his people.
Climate change expert. And it’s partly why there’s such incredible rates of childhood asthma in black and brown communities, why black Americans are almost three times more likely to die of asthma related causes than white Americans.”Advertisement - story continues below“It powerfully captures two basic truths, which are at the core of his plan: (1) the United States urgently needs to embrace greater ambition on an epic scale to meet the scope of this challenge, and (2) our environment and our economy are completely and totally connected.”“[T]here’s no more consequential challenge that we must meet in the next decade than the onrushing climate crisis,” he said. This is not some sort of, ‘Let me just throw a bone to those who care about climate change.’”“Now more than ever, it’s clear that Biden is beholden to the radical socialist ideology of Senator Bernie Sanders, and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.”Green was not the only color on Biden’s mind.“The United States owns and maintains an enormous fleet of vehicles.
He also adopted Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's bankruptcy reform proposals, which would make it easier for individuals and families to seek financial relief.Those groups have asked Biden to back a $10 trillion green energy plan over the next decade to overhaul the nation's infrastructure. AOC's rapid resume expansion is quite impressive! Congresswoman. Former bartender. The Climate Task Force has agreed to elevate Biden’s climate standards across the board & adopt a whole-of-gov mobilization, incl: – Ambitious construction, mass transit, & transport, & ag standards+investment – Creating millions of good jobs – Centering climate justice standards — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 8, 2020. That’s not up for dispute, Mr. President.”“[W]e need to be mindful of the historical wrongs and the damage that American industries have done in the 20th century, inflicting environmental harm on the poor and vulnerable communities, so often black, and brown and Native American communities,” Biden said.“This is not a status quo plan,” Inslee told The Times. by Joseph Simonson | May 13, 2020 11:05 AM Print this article.
We’re going to get back into the Paris Agreement, back into the business of leading the world,” he said.He is proposing a massive infrastructure project to address roads and bridges, upgrades for four million buildings to make them more energy efficient, and expanded transportation options that can include bike paths for every city with 100,000 or more residents.And the federal government will be a major clean energy customer, he added. “Left unchecked, it is literally an existential threat to the health of our planet and to our very survival.