They Were Joe Biden’s Climate Allies. Now They’re His Critics
As the president’s administration defends pipelines and drilling, activists are still waiting for Biden to treat climate change like the crisis he says it is
Hurricanes and wildfires are ravaging the United States, and President Biden is on the road reminding everyone that the climate crisis is real, it’s here, and action — bold action — must be taken to combat the devastation being wrought by rising temperatures.
Last week he was in New Orleans surveying the damage from Hurricane Ida. “We’ve got to listen to the scientists and the economists and the national security experts,” the president said. “They all tell us this is code red.” This week he was in California addressing the need to do more to tamp down wildfires, which he described as “supercharged” by climate change. “We have to act more rapidly and more firmly and more broadly than today,” he said.
Biden’s insistence that the climate crisis is a serious issue requiring urgent action doesn’t carry the same weight with advocates as it did when he took office. In the eight months since he promised a “whole of government” approach to warming temperatures, his administration has been unwilling to use all the tools at its disposal to disrupt the ongoing production of fossil fuels.
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