President Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday to promote new efforts to combat climate change.
The White House said Tuesday it has not ruled out issuing such a declaration later, which would allow the president to reroute funds to climate efforts without congressional approval. On Wednesday, Biden will announce other new climate actions when he visits a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, which shuttered in 2017 but has since been reborn as an offshore wind power facility.
The president has been trying to signal to Democratic voters that he's aggressively tackling global warming at a time when some of his supporters have despaired about the lack of progress. He has pledged to push forward on his own in the absence of congressional action. The typically temperate nation was just the latest to be walloped by unusually hot, dry weather that has triggered wildfires from Portugal to the Balkans and led to hundreds of heat-related deaths. Images of flames racing toward a French beach and Britons sweltering - even at the seaside - have driven home concerns about climate change.
"I think given the global crisis that we're facing, given the inability of Congress to address this existential threat, I think the White House has got to use all of the resources and tools that they can," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. On a climate emergency,"that's something that I've called for, a long time ago."
"If he's going to make good on his commitments to do everything he can to bring emissions down, he's got to pay attention to those critical regulatory issues that are facing him," said Podesta, a former climate counselor for President Barack Obama. "Absent meaningful policy action, we're far off track from meeting the goals that the U.S. is committed to under the Paris accord," King said, referring to a 2015 global conference on addressing climate change.
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