Republicans' Deadly Plan to Block Biden From Declaring a Climate Emergency

[bronxiteforever]

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By Prem Thakker
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July 19, 2023/1:04 p.m. ET

Wednesday marks the twentieth day in a row that Phoenix eclipses 110 degrees Fahrenheit—and the next seven days are projected to maintain the record-breaking horror. Thousands of Texans have been going to the emergency room because of heat illnesses. And a rotating cast of some 100 million Americans have been under heat wave and smog alerts for over a month.

Amid all that, Republicans are trying to stop the president from being able to declare a national emergency over climate change. Last month, a group of Republicans introduced a bill, insultingly known as the “Real Emergencies Act,” to prevent President Joe Biden from mobilizing the nation to take necessary action to stave off life-threatening climate change.

The bill was introduced by West Virginia Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito and Texas Republican Representative August Pfluger. As we noted Tuesday, Pfluger’s own district has been at the center of some of the most severe heat in the country—in, again, a state sending thousands of people to the emergency room… Pfluger is the House’s second-highest recipient of oil and gas money, behind none other than Speaker Kevin McCarthy… Capito, meanwhile, is no different; she has been a major backer for the natural gas Mountain Valley Pipeline while also being invested in one of the companies constructing the whole thing.

… This—bought-out officials fighting to stop the government from calling a crisis sending thousands of people to the emergency room an “emergency”—is what is wrong with American politics. Not wokeness, not diversity, not gay people. Don’t let anybody tell you differently.

https://newrepublic.com/post/174445/republicans-deadly-plan-block-biden-declaring-climate-emergency

The usual GOP suspects; Crony capitalism, business oligarchs and dark money.

[dchill]

1. They stand ready to bring on The End Times.

Proudly, I'm sure.

[milestogo]

2. Republican voters in hot weather states will die.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Sad reality, is it not?

[OrlandoDem2]

4. He should do it because it's the right thing to do and it's make their heads explode.

[RKP5637]

5. Republicans are really terrorists to earth. They are so damn destructive. Frankly quite ignorant

although some think they are bright. They are only after money and power and fuck the consequences. ... like a plaque on earth and they appear to enjoy their destruction.

[bronxiteforever]

6. +1 willful ignorance

[RKP5637]

7. Exactly!!! And some things they are happily willfully ignorant of can not be recovered in the future

They remind me of the kids that sat in the back of the classroom and threw spit balls while the rest were trying to learn something.

[Duppers]

9. They are a plague on the planet.

They're greedy vermin.

[Disaffected]

8. They, and the fossil fuel companies that support them

should be damned straight to hell (where they might actually like it because it's already hot as hell there).

Even so, such a bill would never pass the Senate and would be vetoed by Biden so what's the fuss?

Is Biden actually contemplating declaring a national climate emergency? Props to him if he does.

[canetoad]

10. From experience

I know that mortuaries tend to run out of space in extreme heat waves. Maybe these two 'august' reps could offer their district offices for storage of people who have died in the heat.

[sarcasmo]

11. The cruelty on purpose party, strikes again.