President Joe Biden announced plans to expand offshore wind development and climate resilience funding for communities
CLIMATEWIRE | President Joe Biden yesterday unveiled a major expansion of U.S. wind energy in the Gulf of Mexico and vowed to take more executive action on global warming in the face of congressional gridlock.
Biden made that pledge as he spoke on the site of a former coal plant in Somerset, Mass., that is being converted into an offshore wind manufacturing facility. As part of his speech, Biden said he wouldn’t let Congress stand in his way any longer.Biden’s plan to expand offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico will comprise 700,000 acres, with the potential to power 3 million homes.
Biden spoke on a sweltering day when much of the globe was dealing with red-hot temperatures. A third of the U.S. population was under an excessive heat warning. Runways were melting in the United Kingdom. And wildfires were raging in southern Europe and the American West. In recent days, climate advocates and a growing number of Democratic lawmakers have gotten louder in their calls for Biden to declare a climate emergency, which would unlock additional presidential authority. Many hoped that Biden would do so during his speech in Massachusetts.
White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy told reporters yesterday that the administration would use executive action to “double down” on its climate goals. Both she and Biden referred to climate change as an “emergency” but stopped short of an emergency declaration.
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