Biden Hits A Rough Patch With Climate Hawks
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After months of smooth sailing with climate and environmental groups, the president and his team find themselves on shaky ground.
President Joe Biden’s relationship with climate activists is starting to look something like a rollercoaster, with highs and lows, twists and turns and the occasional full stomach drop. That tension was at its most public when a few dozen activists from Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate group, descended on the White House on Friday to demand Biden stand his ground and keep climate provisions in his infrastructure plan. “We believed him when he said that climate change was the existential threat of our time. We believed him when he said that his jobs plan was going to be a once-in-a-generation investment in America,” Deirdre Shelly, campaign director at Sunrise, told HuffPost at the event. “And over the past few weeks, we’ve just seen his plan — our best shot right now at starting the decade of the Green New Deal — we’ve seen him make his plan small and weaker.”More Related News