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The details, however, are vague. And so is Biden\u2019s plan B<\/strong> if it fails\u2014an uncertainty that\u2019s worrisome to both activists<\/strong> and academics<\/strong>. The lack of a clear backup plan underscores the importance of passing a clean electricity standard, they say.<\/p>\n If the clean electricity standard<\/strong> doesn\u2019t survive Congress, it will put pressure on the need to drive climate policy through targeted spending, said John Larsen, a power system analyst<\/strong> with the Rhodium Group<\/strong>, an economic consulting firm.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think the game is lost at all if a clean electricity standard<\/strong> doesn\u2019t get through in this round,\u201d Larsen said. \u201cBut there\u2019s a difference between not passing a clean electricity standard<\/strong> and passing the right spending package.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n In his few months in office, Biden has outlined plans<\/strong> to bring the United States<\/strong> back into the international Paris climate accord<\/strong>, pause oil<\/strong> and gas leasing<\/strong> on public lands, boost the electric vehicle market<\/strong>, and target clean energy investments<\/strong> in vulnerable communities most affected by climate change.<\/p>\n But those are largely executive orders<\/strong> and spending proposals<\/strong>\u2014and unlikely to last beyond his administration if the next president favors fossil fuel usage<\/strong> over climate policy<\/strong>. The clean electricity standard, which would decarbonize 80%<\/strong> of the electrical grid by 2030<\/strong>, is different.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The true measure of President Biden\u2019s climate ambition may be the clean electricity standard he tucked into his massive $2.2 trillion infrastructure spending plan. Its goal is striking: 80% clean power in the United States by 2030. The details, however, are vague. And so is Biden\u2019s plan B if it fails\u2014an uncertainty that\u2019s worrisome to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,53,52],"tags":[1198,9275,66250,90537,4519,46609,90533,90529,43643,61,52379,90534,52259,90528,90536,1999,4531,27289,90535,57125,37032,90530,54979,42518,43801,90532,90531],"views":339,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135045,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135041\/revisions\/135045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}