Biden threatens to declare ‘climate emergency’ and here are 4 important ways he can take action if Congress continues to disagree on environmental regulation.
completed when Biden was vice president, shows that the incidence of heat waves have decreased in the U.S. over the past 100 years. Politically speaking, this measure amounts to nothing more than rewarding your friends with borrowed federal dollars.
that’s dinging the average family for an added $5,000 a year for gasoline, electricity, and food, the legislative route will remain difficult. It’s simple math: Manchin and 50 Republican senators constitute a majority. The Securities and Exchange Commission has already launched a draft rule to mandate"climate-related disclosures." This rule would require all publicly traded companies to catalog their CO2 emissions — including those of all their suppliers, whether public or private. The rule would cost billions in compliance costs, shifting resources from productive to non-productive activities. Lastly, the Environmental Protection Agency is likely to issue new, lower particulate thresholds.
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