Analysis: The global energy crisis is complicating Biden's climate agenda

The risk for Democrats is that high energy prices — and America’s biggest inflation scare in at least a dozen years — makes voters suspicious of efforts aimed at ridding the world of fossil fuels. And that’s a problem for the White House because President Joe Biden ran on the most aggressive climate agenda in US history and has set a goal of carbon-free electricity by 2035.

Yet the path to that ambitious target is made more challenging by high oil, natural gas, gasoline and even coal prices. Republicans have argued moving too quickly will raise costs even higher on Americans and…