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WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — U.S. President Joe Biden may declare a national climate emergency this week, seizing executive power to implement a sweeping green energy agenda, reports indicate.
Sources familiar with the plans told The Hill on Tuesday that Biden could make the declaration during his Wednesday stop in Somerset, Massachusetts, where the president is expected to deliver remarks regarding governmental action on so-called “climate change.”
White House could declare climate emergency as soon as Wednesday: sources https://t.co/LjPISlZQf0 pic.twitter.com/q5tRK4c4do
— The Hill (@thehill) July 19, 2022
According to the report, “One of the sources said that federal agencies are expecting an executive order declaring a climate emergency as soon as tomorrow, but it’s not entirely clear what it will entail.”
Another source also suggested the emergency declaration could come down Wednesday, while a third person told the outlet that the notion was at least under consideration by the White House. The suggestion had first been reported by The Washington Post.
It’s unclear whether the president will take such drastic action.
On Tuesday, an anonymous source familiar with the president’s plans told the Associated Press that while Biden has promised to take executive action on climate change, he’s likely to do so without declaring a national emergency.
During Tuesday press conferences, White House officials have begun priming the pump for a potential national emergency declaration or at least executive action.
Biden administration national security council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that the Pentagon views “climate change” as “a national security issue.”
Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration is “closely monitoring extreme heat conditions” currently impacting Europe and the United States, and reaffirmed the president’s pledge to take executive action to address the so-called “climate crisis” despite pushback from the legislature.
The possible declaration of a national emergency comes after centrist Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia last week derailed leftist plans to implement broad climate goals, including a major shift away from fossil fuels, the Hill noted.
The Washington Post reported that Manchin told Democratic leadership last week he wouldn’t “support an economic package that contains new spending on climate change or includes new tax increases targeting wealthy Americans or corporations.”
In the wake of draconian and unprecedented emergency powers enacted in response to the coronavirus pandemic, many conservatives have worried that feverish rhetoric from the Biden administration regarding the “climate crisis” could pave the way for COVID-style “climate lockdowns” and similar controls which have become familiar since 2020.
The World Economic Forum, headed by Klaus Schwab, has insisted that “governments and business to accelerate the transition to a new economic model” in order to “address the climate emergency.”
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Writing for the New York Post, David Harsanyi highlighted the expansive powers given to the U.S. Centers and Disease Control (CDC) to address COVID-19, warning the same powers could be used under the pretenses of tackling a climate “emergency.”
“Americans experienced the authoritarian reach of government during the pandemic,” Harsanyi wrote. “[I]magine what sort of things await this nation if they can declare climate change an ‘emergency.’”
This article has been updated to provide additional information.