Tackling Global Warming Crisis

Joe Biden opposes drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and supports governmental funding to find new energy sources. Biden believes action must be taken on global warming. Joe Biden wants to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement.Joe Biden opposes drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and supports governmental funding to find new energy sources. Biden believes action must be taken on global warming. Joe Biden wants to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement. Biden tweeted that climate change is an "existential threat to our future" and remaining in the Paris Agreement is the "best way to protect our children and global leadership." As a senator, he supported tax credits for renewable energy; as vice president, he supported a series of emission reduction regulations that Mr. Obama established but Mr. Trump is reversing. Joe Biden co-sponsored the "Sense of the Senate" resolution calling on the United States to be a part of the United Nations climate negotiations and the "Boxer-Sanders Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act", the most stringent climate bill in the United States Senate. He voted "Yes" on a $3.1B for emergency oil assistance for hurricane-hit areas and "No" for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on national security grounds and defunding renewable and solar energy. Biden believes action must be taken on global warming. He supports the creation of a new treaty on climate change that would require emissions reductions from developing countries such as Brazil, India, China, and Mexico. He has also stated his support for investment in technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the creation of a "cap and trade" system. Biden supports the promotion of renewable energy, including biodiesel fuels but not ethanol.
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