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Jessica Corbett

UNCOVERED: Climate groups put a number to inaction | History Defined

Climate Change activists gathered to protest in Washington, D.C. on Friday, December 6, 2019. Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A coalition of advocacy organizations demanding bold steps by the U.S. government to combat the climate emergency launched an online ticker Thursday that shows "the cost of inaction."

The ticker, currently set at $50.5 billion and constantly climbing, comes as legislation to deliver on some of President Joe Biden's climate pledges was passed last year by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives but has since stalled in the evenly split Senate.

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