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What Would a Climate Emergency Mean? Here Are 4 Key Points. [1]

['Elena Shao']

Date: 2024-02 

President Biden faces growing calls from members of his own party to declare climate change a national emergency, which would unlock certain temporary powers to bolster renewable energy and curb investments in fossil fuels.

Some of his advisers have urged caution, wary that the move could provoke legal challenges from Republican-led states and further antagonize Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a Democrat largely responsible for dooming parts of President Biden’s climate agenda.

But in a survey by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication this year, a majority of registered voters polled, 58 percent, supported a U.S. president declaring global warming a national emergency if Congress did not act.

Here’s what it could look like if President Biden decides to take that step.

What is emergency power?

Emergency power is a special, temporary authority that a president can invoke in a crisis. The idea is to empower the president to respond quickly to urgent, oftentimes unforeseeable circumstances by essentially creating exceptions to the rules that usually constrain the nation’s leader.

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