What it would mean for Biden to declare a national climate emergency

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : "There is probably nothing more important for our nation and for our world than for the United States to drive a bold, energetic transition in its energy economy from fossil fuels to renewable energy," Merkley said.
51% : Su also argues that an emergency declaration would allow the White House to do more under the Defense Production Act (DPA) than it would under that law alone, such as martialing funding under the DPA to deploy clean energy such as rooftop solar installations on low-income housing.
49% : In theory, such a precedent would bode well for a climate emergency declaration, but one cannot assume too much consistency from a court that has also become more partisan and seen fit to limit the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce the Clean Air Act.
44% : Until now, White House has moved cautiously on executive actions on climate change, as it tried to get its proposal to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on subsidizing the adoption of electric vehicles and clean energy sources such as solar panels, formerly known as Build Back Better, through an evenly split Senate with unified Republican opposition.
34% : Biden could even redirect military funding to the construction of renewable energy projects -- much as former President Donald Trump diverted more than $18 billion in Pentagon funding to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico -- and impose trade penalties on countries that permit deforestation, such as the destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
29% : Trump, for instance, declared illegal migration across the southern border a national emergency so that he could use funds Congress appropriated for the military to build a border wall -- a move the Supreme Court upheld in 2019.

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