Big climate job left for Biden: Kill Big Oil subsidies | Editorial [Video]

Joe Biden’s environmental policy has been stellar by any modern standard, and history will likely appraise his administration as the one that did more to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels than any other.

The Inflation Reduction Act alone advanced a broad slate of new standards that cut pollution from power plants, vehicles, oil wells, and more, while providing incentives and tax credits for renewables. Last month, his EPA sounded the death knell to coal plants by requiring a 90% reduction in pollutants in the next 15 years, part of Biden’s commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

But the president should keep one promise he has made since the 2020 campaign, which is to pressure Congress to end all public subsidies for fossil fuel companies, because no rationale exists for an industry to receive massive federal dollars and tax breaks when it is feasting on record profits while playing the leading role in converting …