President Joe Biden won’t accede to left-wing environmentalist requests to exclude carbon capture and nuclear power from his green infrastructure plans, the top White House climate official said Tuesday.

National climate adviser Gina McCarthy said that Biden will instead find other ways to address the worries raised by activists that those technologies wouldn’t address the pollution harming poorer and minority regions. For instance, the administration will pursue stricter mandates on air pollution coming from power plant smokestacks.

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