{"id":6638,"date":"2021-11-21T21:48:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T21:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2021-11-21T21:48:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T21:48:57","slug":"bidens-plan-b-for-the-climate-crisis-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6638","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Plan B for the climate crisis, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;If Congress fails to enshrine key climate policies as federal laws, Biden\u2019s Plan B includes executive orders and major regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency, the New York Times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/22\/climate\/biden-climate-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is that executive actions aren\u2019t an ideal substitute for federal laws, and may last only as long as Biden\u2019s presidency. EPA regulation also \u201ctends to lag [behind] the technological realities,\u201d meaning it may only modestly nudge the economy in a new direction, Jesse Jenkins, an environmental engineering professor at Princeton University, told Vox. It\u2019s also vulnerable to intervention by the Supreme Court.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22738414\/democrats-manchin-climate-reconciliation-plan-b\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22738414\/democrats-manchin-climate-reconciliation-plan-b<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If Congress fails to enshrine key climate policies as federal laws, Biden\u2019s Plan B includes executive orders and major regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency, the New York Times reported.<br \/>\nThe problem is that executive actions aren\u2019t an ideal substitute for federal laws, and may last only as long as Biden\u2019s presidency. EPA regulation also \u201ctends to lag [behind] the technological realities,\u201d meaning it may only modestly nudge the economy in a new direction, Jesse Jenkins, an environmental engineering professor at Princeton University, told Vox. It\u2019s also vulnerable to intervention by the Supreme Court.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,542,103,927,876,104,780,906,411,528],"class_list":["post-6638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-congress","tag-environment","tag-executive","tag-executive-order","tag-global-warming","tag-joe-biden","tag-legislation","tag-policy","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6639,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions\/6639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}