on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to invest $2 trillion in federal funding in clean energy programs as part of a Green New Deal aimed at confronting global climate change, according to her campaign. Under the umbrella of a Green New Deal, Warren is pitching a “Green Apollo Program” to invest in clean energy technology and a “Green Marshall Plan” devoted to encouraging countries to buy U.S.-made clean energy technologies. On Tuesday, former vice president Joe Biden pitched a $1.7 trillion federal investment in an embrace of the “framework” of the Green New Deal. Of the $2 trillion plan, Warren is pitching $1.5 trillion in federal purchases of zero-emission vehicles and other clean energy products (a “Green Industrial Mobilization”); a $400 billion clean energy investment (the Green Apollo Program), and $100 billion in assistance for other countries to buy U.S.-made clean energy technology (the Green Marshall Plan). “With this plan, Elizabeth Warren is seizing the enormous opportunity that transitioning to 100 percent clean energy represents for people across the country,” Jack Shapiro, a senior climate campaigner for Greenpeace USA, said in a statement.

Source: Washington Post June 04, 2019 13:37 UTC