{"id":7074,"date":"2024-03-08T13:55:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/biden-backtracks-on-climate-plans-and-walks-tightrope-to-court-both-young-voters-and-moderates\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T13:55:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:55:39","slug":"biden-backtracks-on-climate-plans-and-walks-tightrope-to-court-both-young-voters-and-moderates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/biden-backtracks-on-climate-plans-and-walks-tightrope-to-court-both-young-voters-and-moderates\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden backtracks on climate plans and \u2018walks tightrope\u2019 to court both young voters and moderates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After stalling plans for pollution regulations, Biden is trying to keep progressives onboard while appealing to swing state voters<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden, touted as the US\u2019s first climate president, is presiding over the quiet weakening of his two most significant plans to slash planet-heating emissions, suggesting that tackling the climate crisis will take a back seat in a febrile election year.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/newsreleases\/statement-epa-administrator-michael-s-regan-epas-approach-power-sector\">said<\/a> it would delay a regulation that would reduce emissions from existing gas power plants, most likely until after November\u2019s presidential election. The delay comes as the administration waters down requirements that limit pollution from cars, slowing the country\u2019s adoption of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/08\/biden-backtracks-climate-goals-moderate-voters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After stalling plans for pollution regulations, Biden is trying to keep progressives onboard while appealing to swing state voters Joe Biden, touted as the US\u2019s first climate president, is presiding over the quiet weakening of his two most significant plans to slash planet-heating emissions, suggesting that tackling the climate crisis will take a back seat &#8230; <a title=\"Biden backtracks on climate plans and \u2018walks tightrope\u2019 to court both young voters and moderates\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/biden-backtracks-on-climate-plans-and-walks-tightrope-to-court-both-young-voters-and-moderates\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Biden backtracks on climate plans and \u2018walks tightrope\u2019 to court both young voters and moderates\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}