Biden Vows To Tackle Climate ‘Emergency’ But Defers Formal Action

President Biden is calling climate change an “emergency” and vowing additional actions “in the coming weeks” that will harness his executive powers to combat the problem, but is stopping short at least for now of formally declaring it a national emergency under existing executive authorities, including a decades old emergency statute. “Let me be clear, climate change is an emergency,” Biden said in a July 20 speech in Brayton, MA, speaking on the site of a closed coal plant slated...