Biden’s climate plan pivots to focus on jobs

The World

Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden released a new $2 trillion climate plan this week that focuses on jobs. The World’s environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler speaks with host Carol Hills about its domestic pivot away from climate change as an international policy issue, and toward climate change as a jobs issue.

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