Biden’s battle against climate change is working – it’s a shame American voters just don’t care

The president’s green economic plan is working, but that doesn’t mean it will help him at election time, writes David Callaway

How Biden responds to this challenge will define his presidency and his legacy (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

President Biden was on tour in the mid and western US last week, touting his economic plan to revive the middle class after decades of rising inequality, and coining a new phrase for what he hopes will be an emerging economic age: Bidenomics. 

Left almost unsaid in his speeches in Chicago and elsewhere was that one of the key goals of his infrastructure and technology push is to combat climate change. That’s the way his campaign team wants it. 

There’s no doubt that the thrust of Bidenomics in the president’s first term, one of the most ambitious economic programs since the New Deal, has been to create renewable energy jobs and at the same time fight the inevitable march of global warming. But even with all its successes, and the massive investment that followed his signature Inflation Reduction Act last year, climate change remains a deeply unpopular political issue.