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Schumer urges Biden to declare climate emergency
By Adam Aton, E&E News reporter
Excerpt:
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said last night he would attempt to pass President Biden’s climate agenda with a simple majority, and he urged the president to unlock additional powers by declaring climate change a national emergency.
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“We’re looking at how we make ‘build it back better’ fit — as much of it into reconciliation as we can,” Schumer said in an interview on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” referring to the slogan of Biden’s climate and infrastructure plan.
Reconciliation could allow Democrats to pass massive electric vehicle subsidies, Schumer said, referring to his own “Clean Cars for America” proposal (E&E Daily, Oct. 25, 2019).
Unprompted, Schumer suggested last night that climate programs left out of reconciliation could be enacted if Biden declares climate a national emergency. He cited the precedent of President Trump’s emergency declaration to build walls along the border with Mexico.
“Can I say one more thing on climate — I think it might be a good idea for President Biden to call a climate emergency,” Schumer said. “Then he can do many, many things under the emergency powers of the president that wouldn’t have to go through — that he could do without legislation.”
Schumer said an emergency declaration would give Biden “more flexibility.”
“[I’m] just asking.” he said. “Let them look at it. Y’know, I have a lot of faith … they’ll make a good and right decision.”
Democrats are still debating how far they can push the rules of reconciliation, with some progressives arguing that as much as a clean electricity standard could pass muster with the Senate parliamentarian.
Biden’s “Build Back Better” climate plan calls for $2 trillion of infrastructure spending over four years, construction of 1.5 million sustainable homes, plugging a quarter-million abandoned oil and gas wells, and putting the electricity sector on a path to decarbonization by 2035.
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Also see Fox News: “Trump used this emergency for a stupid wall, which wasn’t an emergency. But if there ever was an emergency, climate is one,” Schumer added.
Republicans have warned that Trump using a national emergency to handle immigration and fund the border wall might set a troubling precedent.
“If today, the national emergency is border security … tomorrow the national emergency might be climate change,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said on CNBC in 2019.
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Morano: COVID-19 Lockdowns Set Precedent for Climate Lockdowns – The left’s ‘ticket to a Soviet-style regulatory state’ – “They want to use the COVID lockdown as the model for climate lockdowns,” said Morano of Democrats and the broader left, offering his remarks on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. Morano noted how the coronavirus outbreak displaced “climate change” as the left’s “ticket to a Soviet-style regulatory state.” Morano recalled how assorted left-wing doomsday narratives from previous decades — including “global cooling” and “overpopulation” — were framed as justifications for the implementation of totalitarian central planning and control. “It was all based on the same concept, that everything’s limited, we’re all going to die and we need to essentially turn our lives over to central planning,” Morano stated. …
Morano added, “Bill Gates has said the COVID pandemic is nothing compared to how many deaths — the death toll — that’s going to come from climate change. Guess what academics already want to do? They want a provision to add climate change to your death certificate, and this is a very real possibility.”
Watch: Morano on Tucker Carlson: We Will Go From COVID Lockdowns To ‘Climate Lockdowns’ Under Biden
Tucker Carlson Tonight – Broadcast December 21, 2020 – Fox News Channel
Morano: “What they’re trying to do, you saw Biden allude to it there with ‘Build Back Better.’ They’re trying to essentially use the COVID lockdown model for the climate emergency model. And they are going to go from COVID lockdowns to climate lockdowns.”
“Senator Merkley (D-OR) came out today and is urging a President Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency which would give him emergency powers that he could bypass democracy, much in the same way that blue-state governors have already done with the COVID lockdowns,” Morano said.
Background Info:
Biden’s “Build Back Better” is code for the Great Reset
BEWARE: ‘Build Back Better’ – The Latest Code Phrase for Green Global Tyranny
Biden’s climate envoy: John Kerry on coronavirus & climate change: ‘The parallels are screaming at us’
WaPo: “The Center for Biological Diversity sent the Biden transition team a report urging the president-elect to invoke the National Emergencies Act to address both the rise of global temperatures and the loss of species to extinction. Greenpeace, 350.org and Oil Change U.S. are among other left-leaning environmental groups that have endorsed the idea. During the campaign, Biden pointed to climate change as one of the biggest challenges facing the nation, alongside the coronavirus pandemic, economic recession and a reckoning over race.”
Federal judges are “extraordinarily deferential” to presidents invoking emergency powers, Hartl with the Center for Biological Diversity argued.
Bloomberg News: Invoking a climate emergency could give Biden the authority to circumvent Congress and fund clean energy projects, shut down crude oil exports, suspend offshore drilling and curtail the movement of fossil fuels on pipelines, trains, and ships, according to a research note by consulting firm ClearView Energy Partners. “The president’s powers to address climate change through an emergency are very, very large,” said Kassie Siegel, an attorney with the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity, which is lobbying Biden’s team to act. “This is No. 1 on the list of things the Biden administration should do.” …
“Declaring a climate emergency will radicalize climate protection, alienating the very moderate Senators needed to pass infrastructure and other bills with carbon-reducing provisions,” said Paul Bledsoe, a former climate official in the Clinton White House, now with the Progressive Policy Institute. …Greenpeace, along with the Center for Biological Diversity and groups like Friends of the Earth, were among 500 organizations that called for the next president to declare a national climate emergency last December. Two candidates who sought the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders and Tom Steyer, vowed on the campaign trail to declare climate change a national emergency.
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[See Full April 2020 Climate Depot Special Report:
August 2020
Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden continues to fly in private jets and be transported in oversized SUV’s despite his call in 2019 to put fossil fuel executives “in jail” for failing to address climate change.
Noam Chomsky: Biden on climate is ‘farther to the left than any Democratic candidate in memory’
Polling shows American’s don’t give a darn.
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The Green assault on home ownership: ‘We need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership’ –“Cheap energy is untenable in the face of a climate emergency. And individual homeownership should be seriously questioned.” UCLA urban planning professor Kian Goh, in an op-ed in the far-left magazine The Nation, wrote that “if we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership.”
You won’t be able to own a car either!Dem presidential candidate Andrew Yang: Climate Change May Require Elimination of Car Ownership – Suggests ‘constant roving fleet of electric cars’– “We might not own our own cars. Our current car ownership and usage model is really inefficient and bad for the environment,” Yang said.
Watch: Al Gore: ‘This is the time for a Great Reset’ – ‘This is a time for a reset to fix a bunch of challenges, first among them the climate crisis’
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Alice Bows-Larkin: ‘Economic growth needs to be exchanged at least temporarily for a period of planned austerity in wealthy nations.’
‘This is not about just incremental change. This is about doing things differently, about whole system change, and sometimes it’s about doing less things.’
‘We really need to make significant change.’ (Full Transcript of talk here:)
John Stossel features Climate Hustle 2: Interviews Marc Morano
Stossel: Your movie suggests this world government conspiracy, that they want to rule us. But I think they are genuinely concerned and they want to save us.
Morano: Their vision of saving us is putting them in charge.
Stossel: And if they’re in charge says the movie, they will destroy capitalism.
Guardian columnist George Monbiot: We’ve got to go straight to the heart of capitalism and overthrow it.
Update: Greenpeace Co-Founder Dr. Patrick Moore responds to study: “How does this garbage get published? I have never seen the forests and wild lands so lush with growth. The CO2 fertilization effect is real, 35% increase in growth, caused by affluence. Can’t we teach them just one thing, that the CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere came from there in the first place? That fossil fuels were made from plants?”
Eric Worrall at WattsUpWithThat: “Central planning, rationing, price controls, punitive wealth taxes and wealth redistribution. The glorious future climate concerned scientists are planning for us.”
