US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that climate change is an emergency but stopped short of a formal declaration, announcing a modest package of executive actions and promising more aggressive efforts.
comments during a visit to Massachusetts and as a historic heatwave batters Europe and the United States. About 100 million Americans from New York City to Las Vegas will be under heat warnings this week.“Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world,” Biden said. “This is an emergency, an emergency, and I will look at it that way.”
Biden is under increasing pressure after conservative 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. Biden also announce new support for the domestic offshore wind industry. The administration has identified 700,000 acres for possible offshore wind energy development in the Gulf of Mexico, the White House said.
Biden promised tough action on climate change in his presidential campaign, and it remains a key priority for some voters ahead of November 8 midterms for control of Congress. The US president also pledged in international climate negotiations to cut climate pollution by 50% by 2030 and reach 100% clean electricity by 2035.
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