Most Green New Deal Advocates See Hope in New Policy Dynamics

摘要

In declaring himself as a Democratic presidential candidate, Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced that climate action would be his top priority and declared, "This is our moment." But is it? Certainly, 2019 began with welcome activity around the issue. In the House, Democrats established a new Select Committee on the Climate Crisis to underscore the issue's urgency. And at its first hearing on global warming in six years, the new chair of the environment and climate change subcommittee, New York's Paul Tonka, hailed "the issue of our time" and touted previous calls for a moonshot program to transform the energy system. Over in the Senate, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee discussed revamping the electricity sector, its first climate hearing since 2012.