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Even Trump Can’t Stop America’s Green Transition, Says Biden’s Top Climate Adviser
As he prepares to leave the White House, Ali Zaidi is sober about what’s coming—but says too much has already been built and invested for Donald Trump to undo it.
Biden’s approval of the controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska draws into question the country’s commitment to a transition to clean energy while there is still money to be made in fossil fuels. Ali Zaidi: What we’ll see is that in a number of sectors across our economy, this administration was the moment when we achieved escape velocity on a shift from polluting products to cleaner ones. We went from not only trying to execute a paradigm shift from doom and gloom to hope and possibilities but also from focusing on a global problem decades in the making to one that was principally about benefits that work close to people in time and place.
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