Politics
Making America Carbon Neutral Could Cost $1 Trillion a Year
Democrats are going all in on green initiatives, but they won’t be easy to pull off.
Cars on the George Washington Bridge on Dec. 1, 2018.
Photographer: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis/Getty Images
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Democrats from Capitol Hill to the presidential campaign trail see climate change as a winning political issue, and they’re competing to outdo one another with ambitious plans to halt the rise in planet-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere over as small as a 10-year period.
But is that even possible?