Biden aims to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by over 60% [Video]

WASHINGTON –

President Joe Biden is pledging to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60 per cent by 2035 as he fights to ensure his legacy on slowing global warming, even as President-elect Donald Trump vows to undo much of Biden’s climate work when he takes office next month.

Biden said the new goal — which supersedes a previous plan to cut carbon emissions at least in half by 2030 — keeps the United States on track to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy-wide by 2050. The U.S. is making a formal submission of the new target, known as a Nationally Determined Contribution, to the United Nations under terms of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, Biden said Thursday.

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The new goal calls for reducing net emissions by 61 per cent to 66 per cent below …