The energy industry in the United States is worried about rumors the Biden administration may declare a “COVID-like” climate emergency.
This move would presumably allow the administration to further enforce regulatory measures on fossil fuels, similar to the sweeping actions taken to manage the COVID-19 pandemic.
“They’re leaning to that direction,” U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart told Just the News. “If you grant the president’s emergency powers to declare a climate emergency, it’s just like COVID.”
Stewart noted such a pronouncement would give the president “vast and unchecked authority to shut down everything from communications to infrastructure.”
During the declared COVID-19 pandemic, government leaders closed international borders, issued “vaxx or axe” mandates to federal employees and health care workers and locked down many cities and states.
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