Posted on 07/18/2024 9:18:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - Green groups are split over whether President Joe Biden should step aside for another Democrat in the U.S. election, with some concerned his weakening polling against fossil fuel booster Donald Trump could hamper turnout and jeopardize his climate wins.
Biden, 81, is under pressure and scrutiny from some lawmakers, donors and activists to drop his reelection campaign in the wake of a disastrous presidential debate performance this month that renewed questions about his mental fitness.
Environmental groups are anxious at a potential second Trump administration, after his 2017-2021 term brought sweeping roll-backs of environmental regulation and restrictions on oil drilling, plus withdrawal from an international pact.
A second Trump presidency would almost certainly seek to erase many of Biden's climate policy wins, including rolling back major vehicle and power plant rules and repealing or weakening key parts of the current administration's signature climate law the Inflation Reduction Act, according to his campaign speeches and policy agenda.
Of eight national environmental groups contacted by Reuters, two want Biden to step aside, one wants him to stay, and the rest were undecided or declined to comment.
Climate Defiance, which has disrupted events, opens new tab featuring Democratic and Republican officials and lawmakers to protest against weak climate policies and fossil fuel production, plans to blockade Democratic National Committee headquarters on Friday as they schedule a roll call vote to nominate their presidential slate.
Youth climate group the Sunrise Movement, meanwhile, has called for Biden to "pass the torch".
"After speaking with young people across the country over the past few weeks, I am concerned that Joe Biden isn't positioned to mobilize young people and win in November," Sunrise director Aru Shiney-Ajay said.
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So there the choice. The US can vote either for the anti Marxists or the Marxists.
So glad you are pointing this out. We WANT Biden to run! We WANT Trump to win!
Let Biden run!
The “green” groups will be flying in from all over the country to conduct their protests....
Lol.
Doesn’t matter who the Dems run, the Marixst agenda stays the same.
It is not Trump vrs Biden. It US vrs the Anti Americans. Biden is just the face
Not good enough. Burn it to the ground, I say!
Climate groups are not split on the requirement that their “experts” should never, ever have a climate forecast that turnes out to be correct.
No torch to pass. Not allowed to light it. New regs.
The “climate activists” need people whose brains are not fully formed and Biden is too old.
Note also that the “torch” is symbolic and must never be lit, else Gia would die.
The rats have a real cluster on their hands. LOL. All because one man decided to take them on head first.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
This is, of course, a carbon-neutral E-torch.
” Climate groups split over whether Biden should ‘pass the torch’”
Maybe the climate groups ought to use that torch to self immolate themselves in protest.
Wait!... I thought the Republicans were the only ones with torches.
Exactly. Torches increase America’s carbon footprint.
On private jets.
Fiery torches aren’t good for the environment. Use those with batteries but don’t dispose of them in the landfill.
Biden throws a hail Mary pass to Kam. The pass is picked off by JD Vance for a touch down.
Seems like that is all the green groups know how to to do ...is protest. They certainly have produced no green economy. Yes, President Trump is for a fossil fuel economy. It’s the only one that really works on a national basis & we have years & years of success to prove that while the “greenies” have mostly failure. Wishing they would just shut up & go home....peacefully.
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