The Biden administration is promising the US will slash planet-warming pollution at least 61% over the next decade, raising the country’s climate ambition even as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to obliterate policies key to achieving the target.
The move — coming in the form of a new US emissions-cutting pledge under the Paris Agreement — is both optimistic and defiant, based on expectations that companies, states and cities will intensify their fight against climate change even if Trump makes good on his vows to lead a federal government retreat.
Electric school buses at a bus depot in Oakland, California.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
With the pledge, the US is vowing to reduce its net greenhouse gas …