The path for fulfilling the Biden's Administration's ambitious climate change goals narrows as the Build Back Better Act, which contains $555 billion in proposed climate action, is in limbo in Capitol Hill, and as the Supreme Court is set to hear a pivotal case in February that could significantly restrict his authority to regulate the carbon dioxide that spews from power plants. Midterm elections in November 2022 also threaten the democratic control of the Congress, which likely would also hinder any efforts to address climate change.
Although Biden identified addressing climate change as one of his priorities upon entering the presidential office, not all of his actions align with statement. As gasoline prices surged in the summer and fall, the White House sought to increase oil production, even as Mr. Biden implored world leaders to stop burning fossil fuels anddays after the Glasgow climate talks, the administration auctioned off nearly 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, a record for that location, for offshore drilling. Most notably, Mr. Biden failed to persuade the single Democratic holdout, Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, to vote for his $1.7 trillion Build Back Better bill, placing its future in jeopardy in an evenly split Senate.
Lisa Friedman, "Biden ‘Over-Promised and Under-Delivered’ on Climate. Now, Trouble Looms in 2022", contributed by Morgan Sarao, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 24 January 2022, accessed 25 April 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/biden-‘over-promised-and-under-delivered’-climate-now-trouble-looms-2022
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The path for fulfilling the Biden's Administration's ambitious climate change goals narrows as the Build Back Better Act, which contains $555 billion in proposed climate action, is in limbo in Capitol Hill, and as the Supreme Court is set to hear a pivotal case in February that could significantly restrict his authority to regulate the carbon dioxide that spews from power plants. Midterm elections in November 2022 also threaten the democratic control of the Congress, which likely would also hinder any efforts to address climate change.
Although Biden identified addressing climate change as one of his priorities upon entering the presidential office, not all of his actions align with statement. As gasoline prices surged in the summer and fall, the White House sought to increase oil production, even as Mr. Biden implored world leaders to stop burning fossil fuels anddays after the Glasgow climate talks, the administration auctioned off nearly 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, a record for that location, for offshore drilling. Most notably, Mr. Biden failed to persuade the single Democratic holdout, Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, to vote for his $1.7 trillion Build Back Better bill, placing its future in jeopardy in an evenly split Senate.