Several Democratic lawmakers are urging President Biden to take drastic steps to combat climate change, even at the cost of exacerbating already skyrocketing gas prices.
Despite a lack of oil supply contributing to that high cost, one such plan would involve declaring a "National climate emergency," allowing Biden to halt all new oil drilling on federal lands and waters.
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Jeff Merkley of Oregon want Biden to "Invoke a national climate emergency as well as a suite of other moves like regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, formally establishing a dollar estimate of the climate damages caused by fossil fuel projects, and imposing a tax on imports from nations that lack aggressive climate policies," The New York Times reported Tuesday.
The Biden administration can do more on climate, and with legislative options now closed, the President must act.
"I would not plan a announcement this week on national climate emergency," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a news briefing Tuesday.
In the past year, Biden and Democratic lawmakers have run into several roadblocks on the way to enacting their climate agenda.
Last week, Manchin "Rejected including any legislation on climate change in a reconciliation bill Democrats want to pass this month," Fox News reported.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/democrats-beg-joe-biden-halt-new-drilling-executive-order-beast
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