{"id":3398,"date":"2020-07-01T02:33:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T02:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2020-07-01T02:33:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T02:33:37","slug":"democrats-unveil-sweeping-plan-to-tackle-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/democrats-unveil-sweeping-plan-to-tackle-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats unveil sweeping plan to tackle climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-meta__authors\">By <span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/staff\/anthony-adragna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ANTHONY ADRAGNA<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 06\/30\/2020. POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">House Democrats released a sprawling and aggressive climate change plan on Tuesday aimed at curbing U.S. greenhouse gases and protecting vulnerable communities \u2014 setting up a clash with Republicans and the Trump administration on the issue ahead of the fall election.<\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">The 547-page report, the most ambitious Democratic climate plan to date, calls for setting a price on carbon dioxide pollution, eliminating pollution from cars by 2035 and from power plants by 2040 and achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It also aims to make environmental justice a focus and says marginalized communities that often suffer the worst effects of climate change and pollution must get &#8220;the tangible benefits&#8221; of climate action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/06\/30\/democrats-unveil-sweeping-plan-to-tackle-climate-change-345503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FULL POLITICO ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"font-regular h5 mt-12 mb-8 sm:h3 sm:mb-12\">AXIOS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/house-democrats-climate-change-plan-32595de8-0e8c-43a2-b913-ea0bb7ef5e8f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6 takeaways from the House Democrats&#8217; climate blueprint<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/climatecrisis.house.gov\/sites\/climatecrisis.house.gov\/files\/Climate%20Crisis%20Action%20Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link to the 547 Page Report: Solving The Climate Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ANTHONY ADRAGNA\u00a0 06\/30\/2020. POLITICO. House Democrats released a sprawling and aggressive climate change plan on Tuesday aimed at curbing<span class=\"text-cutoff\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}