Factbox: On Climate, It’s Biden’s Green Revolution Versus Trump’s War on Red Tape

The U.S. presidential election pits a politician who supports environmental regulation and diplomacy to tackle 🌍Climate Change against another determined to dismantle such policies.

President 👤Donald Trump, a Republican, has focused on dismantling former President Barack Obama’s climate agenda to free the energy and auto industries from the costs of regulations meant to protect health and the environment.

👤Joe Biden, a Democrat who was a senator before becoming Obama’s vice president, introduced one of the earliest bills on 🌍Climate Change in 1986 and envisions a diplomatic push to engage the world in reducing coal dependence. Even so, many environmentalists and liberals in his party have demanded he adopt more aggressive stances that call for a quicker end to all fossil fuels.

Biden is expected to unveil a new economic recovery plan on Tuesday focused on environmentally sustainable infrastructure and clean energy.

Here are some of the major climate issues at play in the Nov. 3 election.

CLIMATE PLANS

Biden touts a $1.7 trillion plan to set the United States on a course to achieve 100% clean energy and net-zero emissions by 2050. Dubbed the Clean Energy Revolution, his proposal calls for the installation of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations by 2030, ending fossil fuel subsidies and providing $400 billion for research and development in clean technology. He supports research into high-tech nuclear energy that would be virtually emissions free, but likely still have waste issues.