US President Biden sets out $5.8trn budget majoring on 'urgent' boost to climate action

Administration aims to spend $45bn to spur schemes backing 50% cut to greenhouse gas pollution, 30GW build-out of offshore wind and market-changing shift to zero-emission vehicles in the country

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Joe Biden.Foto: GPA Photo Archive/White House / Adam Schultz https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Published 29 March 2022, 21:34Updated 16 October 2023, 19:12
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