President Biden is preparing to declare a climate emergency, say lawmakers who have spoken to the president and are urging him to take executive action now that Congress’ negotiations for climate change legislation have fallen apart.
Democratic lawmakers expect Mr. Biden to announce a climate emergency as early as this week. White House officials, however, were coy about whether Mr. Biden would do it Wednesday when he visits the shuttered Brayton Point power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, to talk about climate change.
“I don’t know the exact words the president is going to use but I think that Joe Biden is poised to use his commander in chief authority to invoke a domestic mobilization against the climate crisis,” said Sen.