Politico: “Mere weeks after urging President Joe Biden to go all-out to push the limits of his executive powers on climate change, progressives — many of whom have spent their careers imploring Congress to act — hailed an agreement that would see $369 billion in climate and energy investments as the biggest ever.”
Joe Manchin Agrees to Climate and Tax Package
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) “announced that he had struck a deal with Democratic leaders on a domestic spending package that includes climate and energy programs and tax increases, less than two weeks after abruptly upending hopes for such a deal this summer,” the New York Times reports.
“In a statement, Mr. Manchin, who had been his party’s main holdout on an expansive social policy, climate and tax package, confirmed his support for the measure in a statement that did not provide detail on its precise elements. But in the statement, he signaled support for climate and energy programs, as well as some tax provisions, all of which he had previously suggested he could not support because of concerns about inflation.”
“It was not clear what had changed his mind about the plan, which only weeks ago he had said he could not back until he saw more economic data next month.”
Washington Post: “The new agreement opens the door for party lawmakers to try to advance the measure as soon as next week, capping off months of debate, delay and acrimony that some Democrats came to see as detrimental to their political fate ahead of this fall’s elections.”
Gore Compares Climate Deniers to Uvalde Police
“Former Vice President Al Gore compared “climate deniers” to those law enforcement officials who waited more than an hour to attack the gunman in Uvalde, Texas, who killed 21 students and teachers,” Politico reports.
Said Gore: “You know, the climate deniers are really in some ways similar to all of those almost 400 law enforcement officers in Uvalde, Texas, who were waiting outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred. They heard the screams, they heard the gunshots, and nobody stepped forward.”
Environmental Policy Joe Manchin Can Support
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and his wife, an appointee in the Biden administration, together directed over $15 million in federal funding to protected wetlands where the couple owns property, The Intercept reports.
Greenland Is Being Transformed by Climate Change
CNN: “The amount of ice that melted in Greenland between July 15 and 17 alone – 6 billion tons of water per day – would be enough to fill 7.2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.”
“Put another way, it was enough to cover the entire state of West Virginia with a foot of water.”
Democratic Senator Pushes Biden on Climate Action
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called on President Biden to enter “executive Beast Mode” to address the climate crisis.
Quote of the Day
“Let’s see what the Congress does. The Congress needs to act.”
— Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), quoted by ABC News, when asked if he was supportive of President Biden declaring a national climate emergency.
Biden Holds Off on Declaring Climate Emergency
“President Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday to promote his efforts to combat climate change but will stop short of issuing an emergency declaration that would unlock federal resources to deal with the issue,” the AP reports.
“It was not clear whether an emergency declaration remained under consideration for later action.”
Biden May Declare Climate Emergency This Week
“President Biden is considering declaring a national climate emergency as soon as this week as he seeks to salvage his environmental agenda in the wake of stalled talks on Capitol Hill,” the Washington Post reports.
“If an emergency is invoked, it could empower the Biden administration in its efforts to reduce carbon emissions and foster cleaner energy.”
U.S. Running Out of Time to Avoid Extreme Climate
Washington Post: “In 101 months, the United States will have achieved President Biden’s most important climate promise — or it will have fallen short. Right now it is seriously falling short, and for each month that passes, it becomes harder to succeed until at some point — perhaps very soon — it will become virtually impossible. That’s true for the United States, and also true for the planet, as nearly 200 nations strive to tackle climate change with a fast-dwindling timeline for doing so.”
European Heat Wave Turns Deadly
“An unprecedented heat wave is underway in France and the U.K. that is likely to topple all-time national high temperature records and potentially kill several thousand people,” Axios reports.
“The scorching heat is moving north into a more vulnerable region after tormenting Spain and Portugal.”
Climate Stalls as a Political Issue
New York Times: “The evidence that a climate crisis is well underway appears to be everywhere: the Great Salt Lake in Utah drying up, severe weather regularly imperiling the electric grid in Texas, wildfires scorching the drought-plagued West, ‘climate refugees’ seeking higher land in Louisiana and tidal floods swamping the streets of Miami.”
“Still, just 1 percent of voters in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll named climate change as the most important issue facing the country, far behind worries about inflation and the economy. Even among voters under 30, the group thought to be most energized by the issue, that figure was 3 percent.”
Wall Street Journal: Senate climate setback puts pressure on Biden.
It’s Not Just Joe Manchin
Although Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is responsible for sinking the latest Democratic efforts to deal with climate change, Sara Goddard notes the problem goes far beyond one senator.
How One Senator Doomed the Democrats’ Climate Plan
New York Times: “First, he killed a plan that would have forced power plants to clean up their climate-warming pollution. Then, he shattered an effort to help consumers pay for electric vehicles. And, finally, he said he could not support government incentives for solar and wind companies or any of the other provisions that the rest of his party and his president say are vital to ensure a livable planet.”
“Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who took more campaign cash from the oil and gas industry than any other senator, and who became a millionaire from his family coal business, independently blew up the Democratic Party’s legislative plans to fight climate change.”
Ron Brownstein: Mother Nature dissents.
Quote of the Day
“It’s important that every young person, every activist, the majorities of this country who are demanding climate action understand very clearly this is not the Democrats… This is one man named Joe Manchin. When it comes to the most important existential issue of our time, this man is a wrecking ball.”
— Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA), quoted by Politico.
Herschel Walker Expands His Theory of Climate Change
The Atlanta Journal Constitution found at least three other instances in recent weeks when Herschel Walker (R) explained his much ridiculed theory of climate change.
In Columbus: “China’s bad air floats over into our good air. And now we’re trying to clean their bad air and of course it just floats over here and now we gotta clean it, so all we’re doing is throwing money at it.”
In St. Simons: “The trillions of dollars that you’re paying for is cleaning up their bad air but now it’s gonna float back over to China because of the Earth’s rotation and until we can get China and all of these other places to invest in it, it isn’t gonna be any good.”
In south Georgia: “We’re gonna clean it up a little better than it’s already cleaned. But our good air, since we don’t control it, is gonna float over to China where they got bad air. Now China’s bad air floats over to us, where we have the good air.”
200 Congressional Staffers Demand Climate Action
“In a rare move, more than 200 congressional staffers have sent a letter to Democratic leadership in the House and Senate, demanding they close the deal on a climate and clean energy package and warning that failure could doom younger generations,” CNN reports.
Herschel Walker Explains Climate Change
Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) gave his supporters a lesson about climate change and air pollution.
Said Walker: “The Green New Deal, you know climate change. I’m going to help you with that real quickly… We, in America, have some of the cleanest air and cleanest water of anywhere in the world. So what we do is, we gonna put, from the Green New Deal, millions and billions of dollars cleaning our good air up.”
He added: “Since we don’t control the air, our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air. So when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got we to clean that back up.”
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