https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYYByrKBZxQ

EXTREME WEATHER: Joe Biden unveils $2.3bn plan to ‘combat’ climate change amid hellish European heatwave

US President Joe Biden has announced a $2.3bn (£1.9bn) investment to help build infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather and natural disasters.

But the announcement stopped short of formally declaring a climate emergency, which would grant him further powers.

Mr Biden spoke in Massachusetts as a heatwave brings extreme weather to Europe and North America.

Tens of millions of people in the US, across more than two dozen states, are living under heat warnings this week.

"Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world," the president said in Wednesday's speech, which was delivered outside a former coal-fired power plant in the town of Somerset. "The health of our citizens and our communities is... at stake. So we have to act."

He said the new funding would go to expanding flood control, shoring up utilities, retrofitting buildings, and helping low-income families pay for heating and cooling costs.

It includes $385m to help states fund air conditioning units in homes and community cooling centres.

The administration also plans to provide additional support for offshore wind and energy development in the Gulf of Mexico, and enforce new workplace standards to help protect workers from extreme weather.

While Mr Biden said that he will treat extreme climate conditions as "an emergency", he stopped short of formally declaring a federal emergency.

The president has been under mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and environmental groups to do so after West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin - a conservative Democrat - last week said that he would not support legislation aimed at addressing climate change, dealing a significant blow to Mr Biden's agenda. Mr Manchin raised concerns about inflation.

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https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1643645/joe-biden-potus-climate-change-jobs-unemployment-united-states-europe-heatwave-ont/amp

This is good, Mr Biden is a visionary leader.

His predecessor Donald trump did not believe in climate change

Righteousness2:
Waste of resources and time.

The World is acting like Pharoah did.
They Fear the plagues and Calamities.
But they don't fear God.

We all know that your alternate account (You) is responsible for this post...

If the post reached fp, you will nah modify your comment and start shouting the end is near...

The end is near
Don reach how many years now?

God1000:
This is good, Mr Biden is a visionary leader.

His predecessor Donald trump did not believe in climate change

Biden a visionary leader
It's now real niggars knew Trump is better than that old piece of shit...