Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
Ahead of Earth Day on April 22, youth organizers across the United States are planning protests in hundreds of communities to demand that President Joe Biden declare a climate emergency and take other action to tackle the fossil fuel-driven crisis. 'President Biden promised to be a climate president.
'Last year—the hottest in human history—Biden claimed that 'practically speaking,' he had already declared a national climate emergency. The People vs. Fossil Fuels coalition responded that he 'should follow through on his rhetoric and immediately declare a national emergency that would unlock new executive powers to speed up the deployment of clean energy and halt fossil fuel expansion.
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