{"id":1563300,"date":"2022-07-20T17:10:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T21:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563300"},"modified":"2022-07-20T17:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T21:19:53","slug":"biden-announces-executive-actions-aimed-at-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-announces-executive-actions-aimed-at-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Announces Executive Actions Aimed At Climate Change"},"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%2Fbiden-announces-executive-actions-aimed-at-climate-change%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=1563300&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-20-at-4.33.04-PM-e1658349229551.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared climate change to be \u201can existential threat\u201d and announced executive actions aimed at combating the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, speaking at a former coal-fired power plant in Brayton Point, Massachusetts, chastised Congress for \u201cnot acting on this emergency\u201d but didn\u2019t go so far as to officially declare a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/18\/biden-embarrass-saudi-arabia-clean-energy\/\">climate<\/a> emergency declaration \u2013 though he did say he is viewing the subject as such. His upcoming executive actions, which he detailed in Massachusetts, come after Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/19\/politics\/white-house-climate\/index.html\">sunk his<\/a> party\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/15\/joe-biden-joe-manchin-msnbc-climate-spending\/\">push<\/a> to pass legislation on climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all have a duty right now to our economy, to our competitiveness in the world, to the young people in this nation and to future generations,\u201d Biden said. \u201cThat sounds like hyperbole, but it\u2019s not \u2013 it\u2019s real \u2013 to act boldly on climate. And so \u2026 Congress \u2013 notwithstanding the leadership of the men and women who are here today \u2013 has failed in its duty. Not a single Republican in Congress stepped up to support my climate plan. Not one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let me be clear: climate change is an emergency, and in the coming weeks I\u2019m going to use the power I have as president to turn these words into formal, official government actions through the appropriate proclamations, executive orders and regulatory power that a president possesses.\u00a0When it comes to fighting climate change \u2026 I will not take no for an answer,\u201d the president continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/27\/supreme-court-joe-biden-social-cost-climate-agenda\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Supreme Court Hands Biden Admin Major Win For Climate Agenda)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/20\/editor-daily-rundown-biden-climate-agenda\/\">executive<\/a> actions specifically target extreme heat conditions, which the White House said are \u201cimpacting more than 100 million Americans this week.\u201d The actions include effort from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which will announce $2.3 billion in funding to its \u201cBuilding Resilient Infrastructure and Communities\u201d (BRIC) program, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/07\/20\/fact-sheetpresident-bidens-executive-actions-on-climate-to-address-extreme-heat-and-boost-offshore-wind\/\">according<\/a> to the administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis funding will help communities increase resilience to heat waves, drought, wildfires, flood, hurricanes, and other hazards by preparing before disaster strikes,\u201d the White House said in a fact sheet. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/02\/joe-biden-climate-agenda-energy-interior-department-donald-trump\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Biden Revoked Trump\u2019s \u2018Energy Dominance\u2019 Agenda. Now It\u2019s Coming Back To Haunt Him)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s executive actions also include initiatives aimed at lowering the cost for cooling homes in areas subject to extreme heat and a push to expand \u201coffshore wind opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of the Interior is proposing the first Wind Energy Areas in the Gulf of Mexico, a historic step toward expanding offshore wind opportunities to another region of the United States,\u201d the White House noted. \u201cThese areas cover 700,000 acres and have the potential to power over three million homes. President Biden is also directing the Secretary of the Interior to advance wind energy development in the waters off the mid- and southern Atlantic Coast and Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast \u2014alleviating uncertainty cast by the prior Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In relation to offshore wind opportunities, Biden announced an effort from the Department of the Interior (DOI) \u201cto consider potential offshore wind power in the Gulf of Mexico.\u201d He also directed the DOI to push \u201cclean energy development\u201d off the southern coasts.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has been vocal about climate change, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/10\/24\/joe-biden-climate-change-is-number-one-issue-facing-humanity.html\">saying<\/a> during an interview in 2020 that he views it as the \u201cnumber one issue facing humanity\u201d and reiterating that it\u2019s \u201cthe existential threat to humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden has focused on climate change since announcing his run for president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"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-1563300","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\/1563300","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563300\/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=1563300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}