Biden’s Domestic Clean Energy Push Seen Aiding Broad Climate Agenda

The Biden administration’s early emphasis on encouraging domestic manufacturing of clean energy technology, including this week’s directive for agencies to review supply chains for batteries and other critical products, could give federal officials the political space to implement their sweeping climate change agenda, analysts say. “The hope is by bringing home more of those economic benefits, you’re able to buy more political will, more economic justification, for more aggressive [low-carbon] policies,” Sarah Ladislaw, the director of the Center for Strategic...