Absent From Stimulus Packages: Overhauling Energy, Climate Programs

Around the world leaders see opportunity in the global pandemic to address the other big problem humanity faces: climate change. The United Nations and International Energy Agency suggest all nations consider climate when drafting stimulus plans. The European Union is developing a plan that does that. But here in the United States, climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions have not been a part of the $3 trillion in relief packages passed so far.

By Jeff Brady. NPR News, Morning Edition. June 17, 2020.

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