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Biden team in talks with utilities, car companies about emissions: climate adviser
Reuters ^ | February 3, 2021 | By Jeff Mason, Valerie Volcovici

Posted on 02/03/2021 5:38:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has started discussions with the utility and automobile sectors about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, White House domestic climate change adviser Gina McCarthy told Reuters.

The talks are part of a broad effort by the Biden administration that McCarthy will spearhead to engage every federal agency to decarbonize the U.S. power sector by 2035 and the whole economy by 2050.

McCarthy’s first major task will be to come up with a 2030 emission reduction target under the Paris climate agreement before Biden convenes world leaders for a climate summit on April 22.

“We’re already having conversations with the utility world and we’re having conversations with the car companies,” McCarthy said in an interview.

“The car companies understand now that the future for them is electric vehicles ... so we’re going to be sort of working to make sure that we move forward with some kind of an agreement on that and a strategy to get us out of the gate fast.”

She met virtually with the board of the Edison Electric Institute, the main utility lobby, which discussed its “support for recent energy-related executive orders,” a spokesman for the group told Reuters.

McCarthy will chair a task force composed of the heads of all Cabinet agencies to see what measures can be taken through regulation, budget appropriation and legislation to combat climate change, she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechangeadvisor; climatechangefraud; ginamccarthy; globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 02/03/2021 5:38:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

IF this madness were to continue for long it would be ruinous. Short term there will be helicopter money and economic activity.

I expect this to push the stock market up for a while...especially in certain areas that will take advantage of the insanity.


2 posted on 02/03/2021 5:42:27 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
From 2013...

EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy Has A History Of Misleading Congress

SSDD.

3 posted on 02/03/2021 5:43:44 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He(actually his handlers) will make an offer they can’t refuse.


4 posted on 02/03/2021 5:44:37 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is that thing?


5 posted on 02/03/2021 5:45:10 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Nice little auto company you have there. It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it.”


6 posted on 02/03/2021 5:45:19 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In the spirit of Nancy Pelosi, he needed to pass his EO’s first before finding out what’s in them. Now he’s trying to find out what’s in them.


7 posted on 02/03/2021 5:48:46 AM PST by cockroach_magoo
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To: ClearCase_guy

Spot on CCG. These are threatening if-you-know-whats-good-for you, arm twisting sit-downs, just like the mafioso.


8 posted on 02/03/2021 5:52:08 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: subterfuge

“Spot on CCG. These are threatening if-you-know-whats-good-for you, arm twisting sit-downs, just like the mafioso.”

Dems like Pelosi, know a thing or two about the mafia.


9 posted on 02/03/2021 5:54:41 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Biden Recession is about to start.


10 posted on 02/03/2021 6:05:31 AM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We will run out of rare earth metals soon. The chemicals leaching into the earth from these wasteful batteries will be a disaster.
Coal and gas need to remain king. Add in some nuclear power and we would be 100% fine with cheap, efficient, and very clean energy.


11 posted on 02/03/2021 6:06:08 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: HighSierra5

“Nice car company you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it…”


12 posted on 02/03/2021 6:07:51 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Great minds - I gotta remember to scroll all the way down.


13 posted on 02/03/2021 6:08:57 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...every federal agency to decarbonize the U.S. power sector by 2035 and the whole economy by 2050.”

I’ll be dead by then, mercifully.


14 posted on 02/03/2021 6:37:00 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: bray

“The Biden Recession is about to start.”

While we already lead the world in emissions management and quality standards.


15 posted on 02/03/2021 6:42:43 AM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: carriage_hill
Meanwhile, China and India continue to spew so-called 'greenhouse gases' with no consequences, while we're expected to pick up the tab.

Stolen elections have consequences!

16 posted on 02/03/2021 6:58:58 AM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I'm a white male, and guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gina the Stupid is Back


17 posted on 02/03/2021 7:03:53 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: jdsteel

The tech companies have spent over 30 years selling every kind of ELECTRICAL device possible, and now, we are supposed to do without electricity.


18 posted on 02/03/2021 7:11:54 AM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because a lifelong bureaucrat knows all there is to know about energy production and manufacturing. All hail the bureaucrat.


19 posted on 02/03/2021 7:28:35 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes. )
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To: subterfuge

Incorrect. The car companies and democrats are planning how to shaft the public, get massive subsidies from tax dollars, and how to mandate electric cars people don’t want. Along with how to make trillions on insider trading and enrich China, which owns the majority of the world’s rare earth mineral mines.


20 posted on 02/03/2021 7:31:27 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes. )
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