{"id":1563181,"date":"2022-07-20T15:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563181"},"modified":"2022-07-20T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:49:16","slug":"white-house-holds-off-on-declaring-climate-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-holds-off-on-declaring-climate-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Holds Off on Declaring \u2018Climate Emergency\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-holds-off-on-declaring-climate-emergency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563181&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-white-house\">White House<\/a> this week responded to reports claiming President Joe Biden will soon declare a so-called \u201cclimate emergency\u201d by saying that it won\u2019t happen this week.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-karine-jean-pierre\">Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> told reporters that the administration has not ruled out issuing such a declaration in the future. That would allow the president to reroute funding to climate efforts without congressional approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not on the table for this week,\u201d she said in response to a question about whether such an emergency could be declared. \u201cWe are still considering it. I don\u2019t have the upsides or the downsides of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such a declaration also could be used to block oil and gas drilling or other related projects. However, such actions would likely be challenged in court and would open Biden up to more criticism that he\u2019s not trying to deal with exceptionally high gas and energy prices amid rampant inflation.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Biden said he will take executive steps to introduce new climate programs in the coming days but did not declare an emergency, which would provide him with sweeping powers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince Congress is not acting as it should \u2026 this is an emergency and I will look at it that way,\u201d the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZqRBQjqY3Lw\">said<\/a>. \u201cAs president, I\u2019ll use my executive powers.\u201d In the coming days, he said, his office will announce new climate-related executive orders but stopped short of declaring an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Those initiatives include handing out\u00a0$2.3 billion in funding for a program that helps communities prepare for disasters, including expanding the retrofitting of buildings and flood control measures, according to White House adviser Gina Raimondo.<\/p>\n<p>The president, who delivered the speech in Somerset, Massachusetts, after traveling there via the jet fuel-powered Air Force One,\u00a0said he asked the Department of the Interior to come up with new offshore wind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House this week responded to reports claiming President Joe Biden will soon declare a so-called \u201cclimate emergency\u201d by saying that it won\u2019t happen this week. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the administration has not ruled out issuing such a declaration in the future. That would allow the president to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}