Alan Lowenthal: “I left with tremendous misgivings about why we are rewarding a country that engages in such bad behavior as human rights…”

The Biden administration has set aggressive but necessary emission reduction targets...

We must achieve 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035, and the entire U.S. economy needs to reach net-zero emissions by midcentury.

To stave off the worst impacts of climate change, we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by at least half by 2030.

These targets are certainly reasonable, and they are consistent with what the world has agreed to for climate targets.