Joe Biden’s newly released climate proposal contains language that is nearly identical to passages found in proposals by environmental groups.
The proposal by the former vice president and 2020 Democratic candidate, which contains no citations, calls for increased use of carbon capture, use, and storage technology to fight climate change.
The Carbon Capture Coalition outlines their plan on their website: “[Our] goal is to make carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) a widely available, cost-effective, and rapidly scalable solution to reduce carbon emissions to meet mid-century climate goals.”
Biden’s website states: “Biden’s goal is to make CCUS a widely available, cost-effective, and rapidly scalable solution to reduce carbon emissions to meet mid-century climate goals.”
Josh Nelson, a left-wing environmentalist, first noticed the similarities Tuesday. “The paragraph in Joe Biden’s climate plan about carbon capture and sequestration includes language that is remarkably similar to items published previously by the Blue Green Alliance and the Carbon Capture Coalition,” he tweeted.
In a separate instance, Biden’s website also appears to have lifted a section of the Blue Green Alliance’s 2017 letter to the Senate. Biden’s website states: “Carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) is a rapidly growing technology that has the potential to create economic benefits for multiple industries while significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions.”
A line from that Senate letter is strikingly similar: “Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is a rapidly growing technology that has potential to create economic benefits for multiple industries while significantly reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.”
As a Delaware senator, Biden admitted that he failed a class in law school after getting caught for plagiarism in a paper. During his first presidential run in 1988, Biden was forced to drop out of the race after plagiarizing speeches from British Labour Party Leader Neil Kinnock.
A spokesman for Biden’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
