Biden’s nuclear redemption
Domestic nuclear energy policy may be the president-elect’s best opportunity to make immediate strides towards net-zero
The US will again resume efforts to combat global climate change after four years of scepticism from the Trump administration in particular and Republicans more generally. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to rejoin the Paris Agreement on day one of his administration, before launching a $2tn green energy revolution aimed at achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. But with the Senate likely to fall under the control of the Republicans, blocking aspects of Biden’s more progressive sales pitch, domestic nuclear energy may emerge as a rare case of low-carbon energy compromise between the two parties. “It is unlikely that a Republican-controlled Senate will slow activities underway in the nucl
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