• According to emails obtained by an energy policy advocacy group, senior Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials called for a vague “climate emergency” initiative in an internal communication sent on July 21, 2022. Mentioned.
• The exact nature and details of the “‘climate emergency’ initiative” remain unclear, as the EPA did not turn over the main email attachment to energy policy advocacy groups, but the date of the email was dated to President Joe Biden. The date comes just days after The Washington Post reported that the U.S. was considering a declaration. A few weeks after the National Climate Emergency hit in the summer of 2022 and the EPA endured setbacks from the Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. EPA.
• “The whole point of declaring a climate emergency under the National Emergency Act is to bypass the Administrative Procedure Act and simply impose rules,” energy policy advocacy group adviser Chris Horner told the Daily Caller News. told the foundation.

In July 2022, senior officials at the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) circulated an outline of a proposed “climate emergency” initiative internally, according to emails obtained by energy policy advocacy groups.

About a month after the Supreme Court overruled the EPA’s ability to limit emissions from existing power plants, the email came from a “‘climate emergency'” from the EPA’s subsidiary, the Office of Air Radiation (OAR). They were discussing the July 2022 proposal for the “Situation ‘Initiative'”.The West Virginia v. EPA ruling and the Washington Post a few days later report President Joe Biden is considering declaring a national climate emergency. Several of his EPA officials, including OAR Chief of Staff Joseph Goffman, EPA Chief of Staff Dan, were looped in the related emails. utechOAR Senior Advisor Cynthia Giles, OAR Assistant Administrator, Former Soros Associate Thomas CarbonelOAR Assistant Administrator, Former Sierra Club Attorney Alejandra Nunez Allison, then Deputy Chief of Staff for EPA Policy Cassadythen went on to work in President Biden’s White House as a senior adviser on energy policy.

The energy advocacy group obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, according to members of the energy advocacy group, but the EPA detailed the efforts when the emails were eventually produced. He said he did not turn over the attachments to energy policy advocacy groups. organization. (Related: Exclusive: Conservatives and energy advocates urge senators to reject Biden EPA top candidate)

The exact nature and details of the “‘Climate Emergency’ Initiative” remain unclear, as the EPA did not produce the email attachment. However, according to a Washington Post article published on July 18, 2020, Biden is reportedly considering declaring a national climate emergency in the summer of 2022.

Biden called climate change an “existential threat to our country” and promised executive action in the presidential election. speech Announced on July 20, 2022, it fell short of declaring a national climate emergency and invoking emergency powers.

Mr. Goffman submitted to Youtech, Cassady, Giles, Carbonell, and Nunez on July 22, 2022 shortly after 7:00 p.m. sent an email with a Microsoft Word document attached. Proposed Strategies for Responding to the Climate Emergency v2.” Goffman wrote in the body of the message: thank you. “

According to the email, about five minutes after Goffman’s message, Giles sent a Microsoft email with the subject “Summary for Review” and the title “OAR Overview of Proposed Strategies to Respond to the Climate Emergency.” I sent Goffman a summary of the effort in an attached Word document. In the body of the message, Giles wrote to Goffman that a synopsis document was ready. [his] Please review and comment. “

Prior to accepting his current position as Senior Advisor to the OAR, Mr. Giles served as president of the Rhode Island chapter of the Sierra Club, executive administrator of former President Barack Obama’s EPA, and a member of the Biden administration’s transition team. rice field. according to on her LinkedIn profile.

“Great outline! Thank you,” Goffman said in reply to Giles’ email about 10 minutes after it was sent. Goffman’s message announcing his approval also copied Nunez and Carbonell, who serve as assistant deputy curators of his OAR mobile sources and deputy deputy curators of fixed sources, respectively.

“The whole point of declaring a climate emergency under the National Emergency Act is to bypass the Administrative Procedure Act and simply impose rules, just adopt what they want to do, which has been repeatedly denied by the courts. ,” said energy adviser Chris Horner. policy advisers told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Imagine an order declaring an imminent threat, one that is so serious and imminent that even going to court is impractical, and that the president imposes some emissions standards that take effect by 2030. Or, try to “roll it out in phases as soon as possible.” ”

The topic of declaring a state of emergency has significantly increased as Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia reached an agreement in late July 2022 with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in the Senate to support the Inflation Control Act. He will pass away in August 2022 when the bill is finally passed after cooling down.

Texas Republican Rep. August Flueger and West Virginia Republican Sen. Sherry Capito voted in June 2023 to pre-emptively bar Biden’s attempts to invoke climate change-based emergency powers if passed. submitted.

Goffman testified A failed Senate confirmation hearing in March 2023 said that if confirmed for the post of OAR’s Assistant Chief of Staff, he would act “with the integrity, transparency and accountability that[EPA]Secretary Regan insists.” Stated. EPA internal investigators said Goffman had filed a complaint after an independent watchdog group accused him of failing to sufficiently avoid interaction with his former employer, Harvard University, in his capacity as an EPA employee. An ethics investigation was launched against Mr. according to To E&E news.

EPA did not immediately respond to DCNF’s request for comment.

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