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September 4, 2019

Elizabeth Warren and Other 2020 Hopefuls Release Climate Change Plans
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has unveiled her plan to tackle the climate
crisis Tuesday, ahead of tonight's 2020 CNN town hall on climate change.
The plan adopts ideas put forward by Washington Governor Jay Inslee, who
put the climate crisis at the center of his campaign before dropping out
of the presidential race last month. The $3 trillion plan - which would
be paid for by reversing Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy - includes
zeroing out carbon emissions for commercial and residential buildings,
as well as most passenger vehicles, in the next decade, switching to
renewable electricity by 2035, and creating unionized clean energy jobs.
Senators Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris and former Housing
Secretary Julián Castro have also released climate plans in recent days.


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