Warren’s climate plan strong with addition of Inslee commitments

Warren’s original climate plan was merely adequate but is now second only to Harris’

Elizabeth Warren, after my initial assessment of her climate action plan was published in CleanTechnica — Warren’s Climate Plan: Solid, But Sophisticated & Hard To Sell To Voters — , announced a new component to the plan and an additional trillion in funding, inspired by elements of Jay Inslee’s gold-standard plan. This is especially important as recent polling shows that Warren is neck-and-neck with Biden in key states, so has a much higher likelihood of being the Democratic candidate in 2020.

“Today, I’m embracing that goal by committing to adopt and build on Governor Inslee’s ten-year action plan to achieve 100% clean energy for America by decarbonizing our electricity, our vehicles, and our buildings. And I’m challenging every other candidate for President to do the same.”

Now that I’ve has assessed Biden’s (meh), Sanders’ (great on electricity, car-centric, and authoritarian), Harris’ (excellent and statesmanlike) and Yang’s plans (good on carbon fee, bad on energy) plans, it’s time to return to Warren’s to update the assessment with her new announcement.

Warren’s new commitments add a trillion, specific targets in some areas, and significant improvements on electrification, industry, and transportation. They improve her plan substantially. It’s still not as good as Harris’ in 2–3 dimensions, but now it’s a much more credible plan. It…