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Have Biden’s climate pledges just been killed off?

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The Guardian

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4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

US president Joe Biden campaigned on climate issues, but recent events may have sounded a death knell for his promises. Last week, his attempts to pass sweeping climate legislation were thwarted – by a senator in his own party. And in June, a landmark US Supreme Court ruling has greatly limited the federal government’s ability to regulate emissions from the fossil fuel industry. So where does that leave the Democrats’ climate plans? Ian Sample speaks to Prof Elizabeth Bomberg about what these developments mean for the Biden administration and the rest of the world. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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for your home. search edf energy.com slash energy specialist to find out more. If you've been in Europe this week, it won't have passed you by that the weather has been extreme.

0:57.0

Well, good afternoon, we start with a new UK record temperature that has been set this afternoon at Heathrow Airport.

1:04.8

40.2 degrees was recorded and temperatures could still climb further later this

1:11.2

afternoon. It seems like the climate crisis is staring us in the face,

1:16.0

and yet governments around the world aren't taking the action that's desperately needed.

1:21.0

The United States is one of the world's biggest polluters, as well as supposedly

1:27.1

one of the countries leading the way in the fight against climate change.

1:31.1

We're going to get back into the Paris agreement,

1:34.0

back into the business of leading the world. But events in recent weeks mean

1:38.7

Joe Biden's grand plan to build back better on climate seems to be unraveling.

1:45.0

Last week his attempts to get his climate pledges through Congress were dealt a bitter

1:49.5

blow by one of his own Democrat senators.

1:53.0

Senator Manchin told party leaders that he will not currently support a proposal for new climate change spending or tax hikes on businesses and wealthy Americans.

2:02.0

Activists and scientists are calling it a death knell for the U.S.'s ability to take action on climate change.

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