Biden’s opponents would not just stall the efforts to fight climate change, they would reverse the progress the Biden administration has made, White House chief climate adviser Ali Zaidi warns.President Joe Biden’s top climate adviser said he understands young activists’ impatience with the slow progress on combating climate change — but warned that the president’s political rivals are preparing a “U-turn agenda” that would reverse all the administration’s progress.
A reversal of Biden’s policies “actually puts us on a U-turn trajectory. A U-turn to less competitive economy. A U-turn to unsafe communities, a U-turn on jobs,” Zaidi said. “That’s a really big deal. It’s very problematic.” The Biden administration has staked its economic agenda on delivering a clean energy and manufacturing boom driven by the hundreds of billions of dollars in incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act, bipartisan infrastructure law and CHIPS and Science Act. The laws have buoyed domestic manufacturing for solar power, electric vehicles and batteries, which administration officials said will position American workers for employment in growth sectors.
Republicans may have a tough time repealing all of the measures in the IRA or the infrastructure law, despite Trump’s promises to do just that. Many in the energy industry,, arguing the incentives are seeding new technologies that can spur new jobs and combat greenhouse gases that cause climate change.