Beto O'Rourke proposes $5-trillion climate plan for net-zero emissions by 2050
by Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times
Apr 29, 2019
3 minutes
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Beto O'Rourke, who has described climate change as the top issue of his presidential campaign, released a proposal Monday that would spend trillions of dollars to wean the country off fossil fuels with a goal to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.
The former Democratic congressman from El Paso also pledged to roll back much of President Donald Trump's environmental deregulation through executive order and to ramp up disaster preparedness for hurricanes, floods and other risks associated
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