Senate Climate Setback Puts Pressure on Biden. With congressional legislation in jeopardy, environmentalists are favoring executive action that could lead to higher energy costs

Wall Street Journal ^ | July 16, 2022 | Timothy Puko and Katy Stech Ferek

[Political Junkie Too]

He can't.

Executive orders have to based on the implementation instructions of an existing law passed by Congress.

I don't know what law allows the President to unilaterally ban all off-shore drilling, for example.

Also, it's not constitutional to simply make a regulation that is impossible to attain, just to be punitive. They have to be "necessary and proper" to the functioning of the United States.

-PJ

[neverevergiveup]

People come from all over the world to see the natural beauty of America. We have clean air, clean water, much less littering than in most of the world, and there very large swaths of open land and wilderness. That environmentalists are anti-US is a joke.

Most of those who use ‘climate change’ as a political tool could care less about the natural environment (e.g. many of those living in Manhattan and the other NYC boroughs).

Further, if one truly wants to preserve the natural beauty and the environment in the land of the US you would want to control immigration. The Sierra Club lost me when it became clear they would never take a stand against illegal immigration.

Hypocrisy is not a flaw of the left. It's a feature.

[sergeantdave]

“The Biden administration could toughen regulations on power utilities, block new oil and gas drilling on federal land and raise auto fuel-efficiency standards, among other things..”

No, he cannot. If any regulation exceeds the power granted by congress, the states can tell that dingbat to take a flying leap.

Incidentally, Congress cannot give away its law-making power to federal bureaucrats. That would be like a president appointing a premier and giving the premier all the powers of the presidency.

[Not_Who_U_Think]

That’s true.

We never hear, that even if we did all these things demanded by these idiots, that by their own admission it will not make a tenth of a degree difference. If the media were honest enough to point this out, the discussion would be over.

[lepton]

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