Mr. Biden was one of the first members of Congress to introduce climate change legislation. In 1986, Mr. Biden introduced the Global Climate Protection Act, which directed the president to create a task force on developing and enforcing a strategy to combat climate change. “Even though decades away, the most serious consequences of global warming could prove unavoidable unless we act now to prevent them. Among members of his own party, though, Mr. Biden was consistently in the ideological center, according to DW-Nominate. (The other Democratic senators running for president did not take office until after Mr. Biden left the Senate.)

Source: New York Times May 18, 2019 09:00 UTC