President Joe Biden announced millions in spending aimed at clamping down on greenhouse gas emissions in a speech at the United Nations climate summit in Egypt on Friday.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will tighten requirements for oil and gas companies to cap methane emissions and mandate responses to credible reports of excessive methane leaks, according to a White House fact sheet released ahead of Biden’s address.
He also announced hundreds of millions in climate funding for poorer countries across the world, seen as vulnerable to climate change, and pledged to meet the administration’s objective of $11 billion in climate funding.
“I introduced the first piece of climate legislation to the U.S. Senate in 1986, and my commitment to this issue has been unwavering. Today, I can stand as president of the U.S. and can say with confidence we will meet our emission reduction targets by 2030,” Biden said at his “Decarbonization Day” address at the COP27 international climate summit, hosted this week in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
At the summit, Biden promised $150 million in “emergency” climate funding for Africa, $13.6 million for World Meteorological Organization research, and $15 million to deploy early-warning weather forecasting systems across the continent, according to the WSJ.
He also announced $100 million to support the United Nations Adaptation Fund, a global bank of disaster response funding to combat natural disasters experts have pegged to a warming climate.
However, the U.S. still owes $50 million from 2021 pledges to the fund, on top of an outstanding $2 billion debt to the U.N. Green Climate Fund, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“We’re proving that good climate policy is good economic policy,” Biden added.
The EPA rule, if enacted, will affect thousands of wells, storage tanks, and natural gas processing facilities across the U.S., with operators forced to replace equipment that violates EPA regulations and buy new monitoring equipment, the WSJ reported.
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The man has got to be the stupidest president in American history. There are over 100 CO2 driven climate models that prove CO2 is insignificant in climate. And a century of CO2 biology that proves fossil fuels are our ONLY GREEN ENERGY.
” We’re proving that good climate policy is good economic policy”
Bald faced lie. Doubling or tripling the price of energy is a wet blanket on the most successful economy the world has known. Yes, Biden is the stupidest president ever, that’s how he got the job. Same for Trudeau. The WEF promotes puppets.
Hitler+Stalin+Castro+Mao+Biden=Tyranny
Wasting our taxes on a fake threat