Basis for Biden Climate Plan Challenged by Experts

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) (R) speak during a press conference to announce Green New Deal legislation, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 7, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

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Joe Biden’s proposed plan “to meet the existential threat of climate change” by achieving a “carbon pollution-free” power sector by 2035 proceeds from faulty scientific assumptions, according to energy policy analysts and a Princeton physicist.