U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to announce a set of executive actions aimed at addressing climate change this Wednesday at a site visit to a former coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts that is playing a role in supporting climate change. state’s offshore wind industry.
Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups have been calling on the White House to take aggressive action on climate change after Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said last week he was not ready to support key climate provisions in Congress, a critical loss in the evenly divided Senate.
On a visit to Somerset, Massachusetts, Biden is expected to emphasize that climate change is “an existential threat to our nation and the world” and tends to make it clear that “if Congress doesn’t act on this emergency, it will,” one said. White House official.
The former coal-fired power plant that Biden will visit is becoming a hub for manufacturing submarine cables that will support Massachusetts’ offshore wind industry, illustrating the shift from fossil fuels to renewable fuels that Biden has been pushing as key to reducing climate emissions.
While there, he will present a set of executive actions that include measures to protect communities facing extreme heat with money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Low Income Domestic Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Department of Health and Human Services.
The official said Biden will also announce additional actions to boost the domestic offshore wind industry.
The president is under pressure to declare a climate emergency, which would allow for the use of the Defense Production Act to increase production of a wide range of renewable energy products and systems. But the head of state is not expected to take that step this Wednesday.
Biden pledged tough action on climate change in his presidential campaign and pledged in international climate negotiations to reduce climate pollution by 50% by 2030 and achieve 100% clean electricity by 2035.
But its climate agenda has been derailed by several major setbacks, including enough congressional support to pass crucial climate and clean energy measures in a federal budget bill, record gasoline prices, and disruption to the global energy market caused by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
A Supreme Court ruling last month limiting the federal government’s authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants is also hurting Biden’s climate plans.
Source: CNN Brasil
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