President Biden to lay out a set of executive actions on climate change, White House official says.
Biden will deliver a speech at Brayton Point, a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, where he will announce actions that touch on the domestic offshore wind industry, home energy assistance for low-income residents and funding to protect communities facing extreme heat, the White House official told reporters on a call.
"The president will make clear tomorrow that climate change is an existential threat to our nation and to the world. And he will also make clear that since Congress is not going to act on this emergency, then he will," the official said."In the coming days, he will continue to announce executive actions that we have developed to combat this emergency."
The rollout follows failed efforts to strike a deal on climate change in the Senate. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., recently
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