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President Biden Faces Pressure to Declare National Climate Emergency

HeadlineJul 20, 2022

President Biden is traveling to Massachusetts today to give a major address on the climate crisis. Climate activists have been pushing Biden to declare a national climate emergency, but the Associated Press said the president will not take that step today, which would have granted him additional powers to address the crisis. Biden will be speaking in the Massachusetts town of Somerset at a former coal plant that’s being turned into a wind energy plant.

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