President Biden can direct all federal agencies to use their authority under existing laws like the National Environmental Policy Act and Clean Water Act to reject federal permit applications for all fossil fuel infrastructure projects. Stop approvals of all new fossil fuel infrastructure projects.The top five key executive actions Biden can take to act boldly on climate without Congress are:
We’re calling on President Biden to reclaim his power from coal- and gas-state senators and show us and the world that he can be our Climate President.” “The president has immense executive powers to speed the end of the fossil fuel era and ignite a just, renewable-energy revolution with millions of good-paying union jobs. “While the potential demise of climate action in the Senate is disappointing, President Biden has other powerful tools to combat the climate emergency and demonstrate urgently needed global leadership,” said Jean Su, energy justice director at the Center. The congressional stalemate is occurring weeks before Biden’s inaugural attendance at the global climate change talks in Glasgow, Scotland. The Senate faces a deadlock on one of the key items of President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda: The Clean Energy Payment Program, which seeks to pay and penalize utilities to meet clean energy requirements. WASHINGTON- As Congress struggles to pass major climate legislation, President Joe Biden can use existing executive powers to take at least five major actions to establish global leadership at the international climate talks in November, according to legal experts at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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