From WSJopinion: Will 'bold' action against climate change include abuse of Biden’s national-security authority, asks Tristan Abbey
Tristan AbbeyThe White House’s developing response to a global energy crisis raises an unsettling question: If the Biden administration openlyrestricting energy exports to combat rising consumer fuel prices, what power might it assert to save a planet it believes to be in crisis?
Because Congress and the courts have ceded power to the executive branch over the past several decades, the president, if he so chose, could co-opt powerful national security tools to reduce U.S. carbon emissions. As midterm elections approach, progressives will pressure President Biden to do exactly that.
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