SOMERSET, Massachusetts (LifeSiteNews) — U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday stated he will use his executive power to take government action against the “emergency” of climate change.
“Climate change is an emergency,” Biden said during a speech at Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset, Massachusetts, where he was scheduled to deliver remarks regarding his administration’s plan to handle the so-called “climate crisis.”
My message today is loud and clear: Since Congress is not acting on the climate emergency, I will.
And in the coming weeks my Administration will begin to announce executive actions to combat this emergency.
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 20, 2022
“In the coming weeks I’m going to use the power I have as president to turn these words into formal, official government action through the appropriate proclamations, executive orders, and regulatory power that a president possesses,” Biden said.
NOW – Biden: “Climate change is an emergency.” pic.twitter.com/fiRemhQNDb
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While Biden promised to use his authority to address “climate change,” he stopped short at declaring a national emergency.
Prior to the president’s Wednesday speech, numerous reports suggested the White House was considering declaring so-called climate change a national emergency. Such a declaration would enable the Biden administration to exercise broad executive power and tap into financial resources in order to implement sweeping climate goals.
The Associated Press noted that a national emergency declaration”would allow Biden to redirect spending to accelerate renewable energy such as wind and solar power and speed the nation’s transition away from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas.”
Although Biden did not issue an emergency declaration today, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has stated that the option is “still on the table.”
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, sources familiar with the president’s plans had told The Hill on Tuesday the president was gearing up to announce executive action to address climate change, including a potential declaration of a national emergency.
Biden’s decision to take center stage in the climate debate came 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.
Conservatives have long worried that high-pitched rhetoric from the Biden administration regarding the “climate crisis” could pave the way for top-down controls like those implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, LifeSiteNews previously reported.
Meanwhile, Biden also raised eyebrows during his Wednesday speech when he appeared to say that he had cancer.
Explaining that while growing up in Delaware people had to turn on their windshield wipers to remove oil from the windows, Biden said “that’s why I and so d**n many other people I grew up with have cancer.”
NEW – Biden says, “I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer” because of oil pollution in his home state Delaware.pic.twitter.com/Zbaj4BWTkK
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News of the coming “formal, official government action” on climate change comes as American media gin up panic about summer temperatures and a “long-lasting, potentially lethal heat wave.”