WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic National Committee’s council on environment change irritated party management when it published policy recommendations this month that ventured beyond governmental prospect Joe Biden’s strategy, according to 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter.
The celebration stress shows the challenging nature of climate politics as Biden seeks to court young and more progressive citizens without shutting off citizens in energy-producing swing states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, where a boom in shale gas drilling had produced blue-collar jobs.
Members of the DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council, formed last year, released proposals for the celebration’s four-year platform on June 4 in a news release, requiring up to $16 trillion in investing to shift the U.S. economy far from fossil fuels while banning hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas exports.
The council’s proposals far surpass Biden’s current environment plan, which prohibits new oil and gas permits on public lands and devotes $1.7 trillion to speed up the shift to renewable resource, but allows ongoing fracking and exports in the meantime.
Biden’s project is upgrading its environment plan as it prepares for the Nov. 3 election cont