Democrats hope climate measures in Build Back Better will be resurrected amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – but green groups want Biden to go even further
Green groups want Biden to go even further.demanding he use the Defense Production Act, normally used in times of war to compel companies to churn out tanks, aircraft and other weapons, to force businesses to produce solar panels, wind turbines, heat pumps and other climate-friendly material.
“Biden is in the ideal position to declare a national climate emergency and use his existing emergency powers to push the accelerator on renewable energy,” said Jean Su, senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the signatories. “There’s a war with a fossil fuel oligarch and we are in a climate war, so we need to attack this on a wartime footing. The best thing we can do is defend the world from the violence of fossil fuel combustion. This is the defining moment of the Biden presidency and of the climate emergency itself.”Biden has said that the fallout from the Ukraine war “should motivate to us accelerate to a transition of clean energy”.
The conflict has underscored the volatile grip fossil fuels continue to have over geopolitics and people’s everyday lives, causing a reckoning for Europe, which relies upon Russia for 40% of its gas supply, and dealing painful gasoline price increases to low-income people in car-dependent America.
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