File picture of activist Greta Thunberg.
Swedish local weather activist Greta Thunberg will testify Thursday to a US congressional listening to on fossil gasoline subsidies, which the committee’s progressive chairman is pressuring President Joe Biden to finish.
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- Last Updated:April 22, 2021, 17:49 IST
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Swedish local weather activist Greta Thunberg will testify Thursday to a U.S. congressional listening to on fossil gasoline subsidies, which the committee’s progressive chairman is pressuring President Joe Biden to finish.
Thunberg will seem just about earlier than the House Oversight Committee’s subcommittee on the atmosphere the identical day Biden kicks off a digital two-day Earth Day summit with world leaders, looking for to assert U.S. management internationally on local weather change.
“We respect that President Biden ran on ending fossil gasoline subsidies. But the main points matter,” Representative Ro Khanna, the subcommittee’s Democratic chairman, said in a statement released prior to the hearing. “Exactly four months into this administration, progressives are looking for tangible and specific commitments from the administration to follow through on its own platform.”
Thunberg, an 18-year-old activist who was Time journal’s particular person of the yr in 2019 for her work on local weather change, has denounced the “insanity” of government subsidies for fossil fuel use. She says current pledges by different countries to half their greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade are still not enough.
When she appeared before U.S. lawmakers in September 2019, she told them they were not trying hard enough to tackle the climate crisis.
Biden has called for replacing fossil fuel subsidies with incentives for clean energy production as part of his $2.3 trillion plan to overhaul U.S. infrastructure.
But the president’s plan has not specified which tax breaks for fossil fuel companies would be targeted. Khanna listed some tax breaks he wants repealed, including one called intangible drilling costs, which allows producers to deduct most costs from drilling new wells.
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