GOP energy leaders press EIA to assess impact of Biden climate targets

摘要

Top Republican lawmakers have asked the US Energy InformationAdministration to assess the economic impacts of President JoeBiden’s ambitious climate targets, including his call to decarbonize thepower sector by 2035.Biden and his Democratic allies in Congress have yet to finalizemany policies to accomplish his climate goals, which include arenewed commitment under the global Paris Agreement to slash netUS greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to 52% from 2005 levels by2030. But Biden’s plan “is the most ambitious emissions reductiontarget ever proposed and if implemented, would have large impactsacross the economy of the United States,” the GOP lawmakers said in arecent letter to acting EIA Administrator Stephen Nalley.