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Associated Press
Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington (AP) — More than 500 days after taking office, Joe Biden wants to save the planet from the most devastating effects of climate change. You may not want it. He is dead.
But it's not too far away.
Thursday's Supreme Court ruling not only limits the Agency's ability to regulate climate pollution by power plants, but also by Byden and the Federal Office to limit climate-destroying smoke. Emissions from oil, gas and coal suggesting that they are poised to thwart their efforts.
Biden says scientists will cut emissions in a few years, scientists say they are left to stop the exacerbation and deadly levels of global warming It will hurt your commitment. And it's a sign to domestic Democrats and foreign allies that Biden's remaining options are diminishing to overturn the legacy of President Donald Trump, who ridiculed the science of climate change. Trump's three Supreme Court appointees provided half of the votes in favor of Thursday's 6-3 decision.
After the ruling, veteran Democrats admitted that Congress was unlikely to enact meaningful climate legislation. Foreign allies, who Biden once said would lead to a global clean power transformation, are wondering if the United States can even lead itself.
And in the neighborhood of Houston entering the hurricane season, a man who spent 40 years defending the black community and other colored and poor communities was polluted and recorded. It was hit hardest by the heat. Colds, floods and climate change storms responded to this ruling, as many others did on Thursday.
"This is the real thing," said Robert Bullard, a scholar who pioneered the US environmental justice movement, about the rise in natural disasters. A fragile city in the Gulf of Mexico in the United States.
"Flood communities ... some of those communities still have blue tarpaulins in their homes," Bullard said. "So I don't think the Supreme Court and some of our elected officials are talking about the urgency of where we are with respect to our climate."
The disappointment of the ruling, expressed by many among the majority of Americans who say they are deeply interested in climate change, is the latest setback to Biden's early reduction promises. Emissions that reflect that it was nothing more than.
The narrowly divided parliament so far when two Democrats, including Coal State Congressman Joe Manchin, refused to pass Biden's Buildback Better Package and joined the Senate Republican Party. He has already handed Biden the worst climate defeat of his term.
The climate part of the law was aimed at initiating America's transformation into electric vehicles, clean industry, and energy-efficient building lands. Biden was able to advance some small pieces of his proposal, such as the charger for an electric vehicle.
And this year, like the Supreme Court's ruling, a dangerous development for Biden's early climate hopes, gas prices recorded due to the global oil and gas supply crisis. Recorded a high price. It fuels inflation and voter anger at Biden and potentially other Democrats.
Due to lack of energy, Biden competed for additional oil and gas. Also, whether he still feels as a candidate and in the first few months after his inauguration that he still has the political capital to decisively guide the United States into a transition to renewable energy. I'm not sure.
The ruling says that Biden, Democrats, and climate-oriented Republicans still have some routes left to advance their efforts to tackle climate change, policy experts, lawmakers, And left the general public.
One is an ambitious and wise presidential action to push for carefully targeted emission reduction steps.
The second is climate change measures by California and other blue states, which previously took action to challenge Trump's rollback of climate change in court.
The third option is a proposal that Biden and the Democrats are increasingly throwing at voters. Election enough Democrats in the interim period to allow Congress to pass legislation to prevent conservative rollbacks in Congress and the Supreme Court.
Biden has promised to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and to have a emission-free electricity sector by 2035.
"This decision risks keeping our country's air clean and impairing our ability to combat climate change, but to protect public health and tackle the climate crisis. Do not hesitate to use legitimate authorities, "he said in a statement.
His team "finds a way to continue to protect Americans under federal law" from pollution and climate change, he said.
The Biden administration can generally still apply strong rules for carbon and greenhouse gas emissions, said Senator Sheldon White House, a Democrat in Rhode Island.
At present, "there is no easy solution from Congress from this turmoil," the White House condemned past rulings on political contributions to "big and dark pollutant money," and now He said it was influencing politics.
The Supreme Court ruled that Biden enjoyed a successful rally with NATO allies gathered behind the United States to confront Russia's invasion of Ukraine. rice field. After Biden declared at the summit at the beginning of his term "America is back," the Supreme Court's setbacks remain vulnerable to the U.S. president on the domestic front, including the implementation of climate change efforts. I emphasized to allies.
When the decision was announced, Biden's envoy John Kerry took off after the maritime conference in Portugal and was working on global and national efforts to reduce emissions.
The domestic climate recession has helped slow the initial global momentum towards climate breakthroughs. They are weakening US influence as Kelly pressures countries, including China, to move away from coal and other harmful fossil fuels.
Among allies abroad, the Supreme Court's ruling, like some other developments, could shock U.S. transatlantic partners, the Center for Strategic and International Studies said. Max Bergman, director of the European program, said.
Climate change decisions have a broader impact: "At least to the masses of Europe, A: a country that can't get things done and B: a country that is really going in a strange direction in the country. It's possible, "Bergman said.
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AP writers Nancy Benac and Jennifer McDermott contributed to this report.
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