Biden climate change plan—why resiliency and environmental justice matter

Donald Sparks, the Unidel S. Hallock du Pont Chair of Plant and Soil Sciences and director of the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN), was delighted to see climate change as a major priority for the Biden adminstration. 

With a research focus on coastal resiliency, Sparks said, “More than 50% of the U.S. population lives along coasts where we are seeing increasing flooding, rising seas and sinking coastlines.” 

Sparks can discuss how the Biden climate plan seeks to address this while noting that “in addition to the concerns over contaminant mobility with flooding and sea-level rise, there are significant environmental justice concerns, highlighted in President Biden’s climate change plan.”

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