Meanings
- USgovernmentA set of proposed public policy changes to address climate change along with achieving other social aims like job creation and reducing economic inequality.
The right rallying call is for a “Green New Deal.” The New Deal was not built on a magic bullet, but on a broad range of programs and industrial projects to revitalize America. Ditto for an energy New Deal.
2007 January 19, Thomas L. Friedman, “A Warning From the Garden”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jul 20191 more example
The claims are outlandish. The Green New Deal is, among other things, a plan to tightly regulate and upgrade the energy system so the United States gets 100 percent of its electricity from renewables in a decade.
2021 February 21, Naomi Klein, “Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2021
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Green New Deal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Green%20New%20Deal
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