Congress Returns, So We Can Expect "Aggressive Climate Action" Sometime In 2021

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Or maybe 2022. Gosh, who knows? No rush!!

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Climate will be all over House Democrats' messaging agenda — if not the floor schedule — early on in 2020. Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are planning to unveil climate legislation this month that they hope will serve as an outline for aggressive action on climate change in 2021.

The committee is expected to lay out ideas in broad strokes, with no specific reference to carbon pricing, but will aim to meet its goal of achieving economywide net-zero emissions by 2050 (E&E News PM, Dec. 19, 2019). Chairman Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) has described it as a "discussion draft" that will be ready for release sometime this month.

"We won't reference carbon pricing, but we will move forward during the course of this to hear from all the perspectives, all the different modeling that people embrace, and we may come up with a hybrid," Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) told reporters last month.

The Select Committee on the Climate Crisis will continue work on its own climate policy report, due out in March. Lawmakers have said it will likely be a set of emissions reduction and environmental justice principles paired with specific policy recommendations and existing legislation.

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https://www.eenews.net/stories/1062003799

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1. What a do-nothing, uninspired, greenwash joke.