Posted on 07/20/2022 4:21:59 AM PDT by John W
In the wake of Sen. Joe Manchin’s announcement that he won’t vote for a bill addressing climate change unless inflation slows next month, climate leaders are calling for President Biden to declare climate change a national emergency — and it appears that the White House is seriously considering the move.
A formal declaration would open up new possibilities for unilateral action by the executive branch to combat climate change, including halting U.S. exports of crude oil and halting offshore drilling. Biden could even redirect military funding to the construction of renewable energy projects — much as former President Donald Trump diverted more than $18 billion in Pentagon funding to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico — and impose trade penalties on countries that permit deforestation, such as the destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
But such a creative use of the relevant federal law would also undoubtedly trigger lawsuits from fossil fuel companies and Republicans.
U.S. presidents have declared 60 national emergencies since 1976, according to the think tank Demos. Historically, those have typically been for acute crises, such as specific natural disasters, rather than a long-term predicament like climate change.
In an era of increased partisan polarization and congressional gridlock, however, pushing the boundaries of executive action is becoming more common. Trump, for instance, declared illegal migration across the southern border a national emergency so he could use funds that Congress appropriated for the military to build a border wall, a move the Supreme Court upheld in 2019.
In theory, such a precedent would bode well for a climate emergency declaration, but one cannot assume too much consistency from a court that has also become more partisan and seen fit to limit the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce the Clean Air Act.
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President Retard is simply bypassing the law as usual 🤪
Who knows? Maybe eating food and drinking water and living in a house, and owning a car, will be prohibited
We should live in caves and eat nuts and berries and get the national population down below 50 million. It’s for the children.
Emergency based on what exactly.
Insane concept.
We have millions of illegals streaming across the border, but the weather is going to kill us?
Fossil fuels didn’t try to freeze me to death in Feb 21. A lack of fossil fuels did.
“Emergency based on what exactly?”
Poor planning on their part doesn’t necessitate an emergency on our part.
What would it mean?? It would mean the media would eventually have to start admitting his JA numbers are in the single digits.
Previous published documents from these psychopaths is that they desire a planet with fewer than 500 million. 50 million, I think it could be argued, would be on par with an extinction event.
This aint his idea. None of his decisions are his own..oh, except his own decision to constantly make an ass out of himself.
Well, whether they say it or not, I am sure someone is thinking of population reduction. What a bunch of skanks.
climate emergency is another way to control you like the scamdemic
I’ve laughed at these fools since the first Earth Day.
It’s accepted (or, it used to be acknowledged) that whether it’s happening or not, there’s NOTHING we can to to stop it.
On the other hand, the now destroyed Georgia Guidestones said we should limit population to 500,000. That leaves a lot of extra bug eaters among us.
“He stays in the White House and has turned off all the cameras to reduce his carbon footprint.”
I think it should mean NO air conditioning in government buildings during the summer. During the winter government buildings should be heated to a maximum of 55 degrees. There should be a firm carbon limit based on a average American household use. When you reach this carbon limit - no more carbon for you. The rich couldn’t buy carbon credits to get around this limit - they would only get up to the limit. John Kerry’s private jets would set idle and he would only be able to heat or cool a small portion of one of his mansions. This might be drastic - but WE ARE TRYING TO SAVE THE PLANET!
We should also have an electric vehicle fair share act that would tax electric vehicle owners for using public roads. They don’t pay a gas tax to maintain the roads. They need to pay their fair share,
Let’s start with eliminating the 81 million Democrats that voted for Joey Crappy Pants. They are useless eaters, breathers and breeders. Do it for the Earf!!!
The suspension of the Bill of Rights until the national climate emergency is over.
Its got my vote.
It means that enforcement is soon to follow.
This time with a virtual iron boot, and maybe some street riots for show.
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