(Reuters) – White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy on Thursday said the Biden administration would seek to pass a national clean energy standard through Congress.
Such a policy would require utilities to source generation from carbon-free sources as part of President Joe Biden’s plan to decarbonize the nation’s electricity sector by 2035.
Nuclear energy and carbon capture and storage technologies would be included in the policy, McCarthy said during a briefing with reporters.
(Reporting by Nichola Groom, David Shepardson and Trevor Hunnicutt; Editing by Leslie Adler)
