On Friday, President Joe Biden said he will move forward with his own efforts to combat climate change and curb greenhouse gas emissions, a day after Sen. Joe Manchin said he wouldn't support the climate provisions in the reconciliation bill.
The comments by Manchin, a key centrist who holds the swing vote in the Senate, could derail months of negotiations in Washington over the sweeping policy package and end hopes of Congress passing any major climate change legislation this summer.
Biden said that if the Senate doesn't tackle the climate crisis and strengthen the domestic clean energy industry, he will take executive action.
The president said his actions would create jobs, improve energy security, bolster domestic manufacturing and supply chains and protect the economy from future oil and gas price hikes.
The opportunity to create jobs and build a clean energy future is too important to relent. The package that Manchin supports was urged to be passed quickly by Biden.
Manchin, who hails from the coal-rich state of West Virginia, has previously opposed some efforts by Democrats to address climate change. The domestic policy bill, which allocates billions of dollars in incentives to slash emissions, is the reason why Democrats can't move the legislation forward in the Senate.
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) delivers remarks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., November 1, 2021.During a West Virginia radio station interview, Manchin said that he was still open to negotiations and that he would only support swift action on the drug pricing portion of the plan. He wouldn't support climate provisions until he knew the inflation figures for July.
I would like climate. Manchin wants an energy policy If I wasn't sincere about trying to find a path forward to do something that's good for our country, I wouldn't put my staff through this.
The president needs to impose executive actions to address climate change in order to keep his job. The Environmental Protection Agency could impose new regulations on power plant emissions.
The Biden administration could impose a carbon border tariffs on imports from countries with relatively worse greenhouse emissions, as well as require carbon capture from all major emitters and create stronger emissions controls on cars, lightweight trucks and heavy-duty vehicles, according to Whitehouse.
There is a chance in this situation. Whitehouse said on Friday that the Biden administration has a lot of wiggle room to fight the climate crisis.
Whitehouse said that with reconciliation foreclosed as a path for ambitious climate action, Congress must pivot to potentially bipartisan climate solutions. The executive branch has a lot of things at its disposal.
The president should declare a national climate emergency under the National Emergencies Act, which would allow authorities to ban crude oil exports.
Climate groups urged Biden to direct the EPA to establish national limits for greenhouse gases and to end new oil and gas leases on public lands and waters.
The director of the Center for Biological Diversity said that this is the time for fast and furious executive action on climate. We have seen Manchin's bluff and bluster come to nothing many times.
The president needs to use his executive powers to prevent the worst consequences of climate change after Manchin objected to the legislation.
Thomson said that President Biden can end public land lease sales to fossil fuel companies, regulate GHGs through the EPA, and declare a climate emergency. We can't keep waiting for a bunch of corporate shills in Congress to act while people are dying.
Biden wants the US to reach net-zero emissions by the mid-century. The country is on track to miss the president's goal if there is no reconciliation bill with climate provisions.
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