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Here's how to meet Biden's 2030 climate goals and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions – with today's technology

  • Written by John Reilly, Co-Director Emeritus of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Senior Lecturer Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
imageClean energy and electric vehicles are key to a successful energy transition.NREL

Unprecedented forest fires in the drought-stricken western United States. Tropical storms and rising seas threatening the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Sizzling heat across large swaths of the country. As climate change unfolds before our eyes, what can the U.S. do to...

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