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Beto O’Rourke Proposes $5 Trillion Plan to Reach Net-Zero Emissions
- Plan would set ‘legally enforceable’ greenhouse gas standards
- 2020 Democratic hopeful counters criticism of oil, gas ties
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Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke released a $5 trillion plan to combat climate change over the next decade with a goal of achieving net-zero emissions in the U.S. by 2050.
The former congressman from the oil and natural gas producing state of Texas said he would put the U.S. back in the Paris Agreement, if elected, and seek legislation in his first 100 days in office to set a “legally enforceable” requirement that the nation remove as much greenhouse gases as it emits, with half of that goal completed by 2030.