Just days after a major investment package that also included climate action fell in the Senate, US President Joe Biden is introducing a series of new climate measures through presidential decrees. The White House made the announcement on Wednesday.
These include encouraging offshore wind farms and support measures to arm communities against rising temperatures. For example, the federal disaster relief service FEMA will receive 2.3 billion dollars (2.26 billion euros) for a program to make municipalities more resistant to heat waves, drought, wildfires, floods and hurricanes.
“Climate change is an existential threat to our country and the world,” Biden said on Wednesday during a visit to a former coal-fired power plant in the state of Massachusetts, where power cables from offshore wind farms will come ashore in the future. The United States is pushing after China. most greenhouse gases.
Resistance in Senate
So far, Biden has failed to make much progress on his climate plans, one of his key campaign points. The president cannot get them through the Senate, where the Democrats have only a paper-thin majority.
Just days ago, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin blocked another economic package of climate action, worth billions of dollars in investment.
The White House is now considering declaring a “climate emergency,” a spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.
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