Biden Considers Declaring a National Emergency – By Yuval Rosenberg and Michael Rainey (The Fiscal Times) / July 19, 2022
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Biden Considers Declaring National Emergency on Climate: Reports
President Joe Biden and his advisers have reportedly been debating whether he should declare climate change a national emergency.
Biden is set to travel Wednesday to Somerset, Massachusetts, the site of a shuttered coal-fired power plant that is now being transformed into an offshore wind facility. Biden will speak about climate change and clean energy, but he will reportedly stop short of declaring a climate emergency.
What a national emergency would do: An emergency declaration “would allow Biden to redirect spending to accelerate renewable energy such as wind and solar power and speed the nation’s transition away from fossil fuels,” Seung Min Kim, Chris Megerian and Matthew Daly of the Associated Press explain. “The declaration also could be used as a legal basis to block oil and gas drilling or other projects, although such actions would likely be challenged in court by energy companies or Republican-led states.”
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