Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).īiden’s transportation for a short speech included the flight to Warwick, Rhode Island, followed by a gas-guzzling motorcade 25 miles to Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset, Mass., before a return trip to DC.Ī decoy presidential plane typically makes the trip as well, compounding the carbon dioxide put into the air. Markey co-authored the Green New Deal with Rep. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey joined Biden aboard Air Force One. AP Photo/Evan Vucciīiden made the trip aboard greenhouse-gas-spewing Air Force One as his special presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, faced charges of hypocrisy after a report said his family’s private jet has emitted more than 300 metric tons of carbon dioxide since he assumed the post last year. President Biden boarding Air Force One for a trip to Somerset, Massachusetts, to speak about climate change on July 20, 2022. “My team is also working with the states to deploy $385 million right now - for the first time, states will be able to use federal funds to pay for air conditioners in homes where people can get through these extreme heat crises,” he said. “Right now there are millions of people suffering from extreme heat at home,” Biden said amid a heat wave impacting parts of Europe and North America. The funds will be taken from the FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program for fiscal year 2022, according to the White House. “That’s why today I’m making the largest investment ever, $2.3 billion, to help communities across the country build infrastructure that’s designed to withstand the full range of disasters we’ve been seeing up to today - extreme heat, drought, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes.” “This crisis impacts every aspect of everyday life,” Biden said in a 19-minute speech. Joe Manchin blocking a new spending bill.īiden, speaking in front of a former coal power plant that’s being converted to support offshore windmills, said he will unilaterally act as concern about soaring inflation has lead to in gridlock in Congress. President Biden traveled to Massachusetts Wednesday to announce more than $2 billion in environmental spending including subsidies for air conditioning units - as he vowed more executive actions to combat the “climate crisis” with Sen. Senators Manchin, Cruz float bill to block gas stove bans GOP, Manchin aim to block Biden-backed investing rule over ‘political agenda’ force YOUR nest egg to be invested in woke-only companies Hochul slammed as ‘out of touch’ with gas stove ban among eco initiatives at $227B NY budget hearingĭon’t let Biden & Co.
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