'West Virginians would be better served by pursuing clean energy projects than climate-polluting pipelines.'
that the Biden administration was exploring a potential arrangement under which federal officials would grant approval to the Mountain Valley pipeline and other fossil fuel projects in exchange for Manchin's support for limited renewable energy investments.the planet. After Thursday's meeting between Manchin and Schumer, environmentalists said Biden should shift his focus to what he can do unilaterally to slash carbon emissions and stave off climate catastrophe.
"It is time for President Biden to declare a national climate emergency and deploy his executive powers to dawn the renewable and just energy future," Jean Su, director of the Energy Justice Program at the Center for Biological Diversity, told"The Biden administration has shown the promise of bold executive action through the president's recent use of the Defense Production Act to galvanize domestic solar power manufacturing," Su noted.
Ashley Thomson, senior climate campaigner at Greenpeace USA, stressed that given the intensifying impacts of the climate emergency in the present, the Biden administration doesn't have time to cater to Manchin's preferred schedule. "Manchin has proven once again that he doesn't care about the planetary destruction that will cause immeasurable death. When the floods come, I hope they carry away his yacht first," said Thomson."President Biden has no more excuses. He must start using his executive powers to full effect if we're going to make any progress in preventing the worst climate disasters in our country.
"Right now he's letting Big Oil-funded politicians kill the planet when he has the power to get us on track," Thomson added."We cannot continue to wait around for a bunch of corporate shills in Congress to do nothing while people are dying."
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