President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress; Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum host.
President Joe Biden, contrary to expectations, said something consequential in his first address to members of Congress…by mistake.
It was a whopper that went unnoticed on Wednesday night; with just a few ill-chosen words Biden utterly toppled any justification for the Green New Deal, which plays a central role in his $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan and which, without a doubt, puts our economy at risk.
This is what he said, according to a New York Times transcript of the president’s remarks: The United States accounts, as all of you know, for less than 15 percent of carbon emissions. The rest of the world accounts for 85 percent. That’s why I kept my commitment to rejoin the Paris Accord, because if we do everything perfectly,
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By Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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BARCELONA, April 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From installing solar energy in villages in Sierra Leone to making electric buses for American schools, the clean energy revolution the world needs for a safer future can also bring secure jobs with good wages, a U.S.-led summit heard on Friday.
Hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden, the second day of the international climate summit looked at how to develop clean technologies and industries to replace planet-heating fossil fuels, while ensuring prosperity for workers.
“If we can keep the focus on the jobs we’re going to create, the economic opportunity, the growth - and in my country, at least, on union jobs - to provide the ability to raise the economy, raise the GDP, raise every part of who we are - I think this is just an incredible opportunity,” the president said.
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Pipeline controversies linger amid possible compromises
By Bill Knight
President Biden recently declined to shut down the controversial Dakota Access pipeline while an Army Corps of Engineers review continues, a setback for dozens of Democrats who urged the shutdown, plus environmental and Native American groups that for years have fought the 1,200-mile underground project bringing oil from the Dakotas to Illinois – and threatening the Missouri/Mississippi River.
It’s part of the Bakken Pipeline System planned to deliver oil to a Patoka, Illlinois hub and the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline, which moves oil to the Gulf Coast for export, not domestic use.