Georgia’s Presidential Primary: Biden And Sanders On Climate

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March 17th, 2020

There are two nuclear power plants in Georgia, and Georgia Power is expanding one of them. While Bernie Sanders is opposed to nuclear power, Joe Biden supports research on a new generation of smaller, cheaper nuclear reactors.

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Next week, Georgians go to the polls to vote in the primaries; many people have already voted early. At this point, there are two major candidates still in the running in the Democratic presidential race.

Both Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders agree that climate change is an urgent issue. In the introductions to their climate plans, Biden calls climate change an “existential threat;” Sanders calls it a “global emergency.”

They agree on other high-level things, too, but in the details, they diverge.

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