Editorial: Hold the applause. Biden’s new EV rules don’t go fast enough for the climate crisis

The Los Angeles Times ^ | March 20, 2024 | BY THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD

[Oldeconomybuyer]

It may be tempting to look at new rules finalized Wednesday by the Biden administration boosting sales of electric vehicles as a big step toward slashing climate-changing pollution.

But the Environmental Protection Agency rules are more an incremental move, too weak and slow to respond appropriately to the gravity of the unfolding environmental crisis. And that’s a shame, because with a divided Congress, administrative action is the only way for the federal government to do big things such as protect the public from climate change and pollution.

Speed matters, after all, in preventing catastrophic climate impacts, and the longer we wait to toughen these standards, the more cumulative carbon dioxide emissions we spew into the atmosphere.

Climate change is such an existential threat that even taking one of the biggest federal actions to date to cut emissions can be viewed as a failure for lacking the necessary ambition. Biden should be doing all he can to get ahead of the climate crisis and dominate the clean energy economy of the future, not easing off the accelerator in hopes that it could help him win reelection.

[Republican Wildcat]

if there was one, this policy obviously doesn’t help it. How destructive is the mining for the materials to make the batteries? How destructive are the batteries? What volume of gases are released when one of them catches fire?

[The_Media_never_lie]

There is no crisis. If there were a crisis, all the green energy big wigs would be criticized for flying private jets, living in multiple mansions, etc.

[SomeCallMeTim]

These people are truly insane. They think they are God.

[webheart]

If they keep slashing climate changing greenhouse gases, why are we still talking about it? They should be done by now. Eric Hoffer said it best that when you want to create a mass movement, you give the people an enemy, but it has to be big enough to not ever be defeated, but small enough that the people can imagine it being defeated. Climate change is such an enemy.

[DennisR]

That’s it? 😂

[From The Deer Stand]

Wikipedia says there were six ice ages. Wondering what warmed the Earth in between.

[oldtech]

“the Environmental Protection Agency rules are more an incremental move, too weak and slow to respond appropriately to the gravity of the unfolding environmental crisis.”
What gravity about a non-existent crisis? I keep hearing this garbage all the time about a crisis that doesn’t exist & even if it did, there would be little we could do about it. How about the existent plan they keep bringing up in fishing for money? I keep wondering how many Americans believe there really is an environmental crisis? And how many could come up with any answer except to try to adapt by moving elsewhere?