Biden, Browner, And The Green New Deal

By Jack Dini —— Bio and Archives, July 8, 2020,  4 Comments | Reader Friendly | Subscribe | Email Us

Joe Biden’s campaign is unveiling a ‘Climate Engagement Advisory Council” aimed at mobilizing voters who prioritize climate change and environmental justice. November’s election is a stark contrast between Biden, whose platform goes much further than Obama-era policies,  and President Trump, who largely dismisses the problem, and is rolling back his predecessor’s initiatives.   Joe Biden has picked Carol Browner as a climate adviser. Browner was the Clinton EPA chief and Obama energy and environment czar.

 As President Obama’s climate czar, Browner told lawmakers to embrace the Green New Deal, and later suggested they start by codifying the Obama regulations that President Trump was trying to undo.

Browner’s remarks came a few hours after lawmakers unveiled their resolution for the Green New Deal, which would transition the US economy entirely away from fossil fuels within ten years while simultaneously providing federal jobs and health care guarantees. It would also, according to proponents advance ‘social’ economic, racial, regional and gender-based justice and equality and cooperative public ownership.

“Let’s just take a moment to, like, say this is a good thing. This is a big challenge, and it deserves a big response. A lot of the details we’ll need to work through and sort out, but today’s a good day. We took a big step forward. And it’s only through aspiration and vision that we make progress, so I’m excited,” she said...........To Read More...

My Take - And just when we thought Browner, a known socialist,  would finally stop infesting government.  It was her tenure as EPA Director that gave us a corrupted Food Quality Protection Act, that eliminated categories of pesticides and gave America the bed bug plague we've been fighting for years......but Biden, Browner, and birds of a feather.