Watch live: Biden announces action on climate change in Massachusetts

The Herald News\

Pubished July 20, 2022

President Joe Biden gives a speech in Somerset to announce executive actions to address climate change as his legislative agenda to combat the crisis faced a setback in Congress.

Biden will use the Taunton River and Brayton Point power plant to highlight the work the town has done to convert the former power plant into an integral part of the production and distribution of wind energy. 

"It really shows you can turn an old power plant into something new," said Gina McCarthy, Assistant to the President & National Climate Advisor and a Massachusetts native, during the flight to Massachusetts.

The actions come as Congress appears unlikely to move on climate change. 

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What is happening in Somerset and Brayton Point  

Last month, the administration launched a federal-state partnership committed to growing the offshore wind power industry, with the specific aim of bolstering the supply chain needed to get wind farms up and running. Brayton Point is a prime example of how energy production has evolved in recent decades. Once the home of a coal-fired facility so notorious for pollution it topped a list of the “Filthy Five” most environmentally harmful plants in the state. That transformation fits ideally with the Biden administration’s stated goal of producing more wind energy and consuming less fossil fuels.

Coal Power to Wind Power:Biden visiting Somerset to highlight power plant's move from 'Filthy Five' to clean future

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'Collective Action or Collective Suicide': UN Chief Pleads for Real Climate Response

"We need a concrete global response that addresses the needs of the world's most vulnerable people, communities, and nations," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.

Governments can either come up with a collaborative and urgent plan to tackle the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency that is already wreaking deadly havoc across the globe or keep allowing corporations to pollute the atmosphere without limit, thereby condemning humanity to a grim future.

That stark warning comes from United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, who said Monday: "We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide."

At the conclusion of COP26 eight months ago, Guterres noted, the Paris agreement's goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5ºC above preindustrial levels was left "on life support."

"Since then, its pulse has weakened further," he continued. "Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, and ocean heat have broken new records."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/18/collective-action-or-collective-suicide-un-chief-pleads-real-climate-response