Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is preparing to declare a “climate emergency” with Covid pandemic-like restrictions on public freedoms, several energy industry insiders are warning.
Energy industry groups fear the Biden White House is planning to declare a pandemic-like emergency that will grant the president sweeping new powers.
“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.”
A “climate emergency” declaration could give Biden and the Democrats “vast and unchecked authority to shut down everything from communications to infrastructure,” warns Stewart.
“They can literally do exactly what they did in Covid,” Stewart said.
“If you disagree with the climate emergency, [speech] can be shut down.
“We really need to be paying attention to that because that power could be extended indefinitely until the ‘climate emergency’ is over.
“Who knows how long that would last.”
President Biden and other administration officials have said that the United States and the world are in the midst of a “climate crisis” and have used language describing it as an emergency.
So far, Biden has stopped short of declaring an emergency.
However, some Democrats and environmental groups have been aggressively pushing the idea.
About 60 congressional Democrats recently backed legislation known as the “Climate Emergency Act of 2021.”
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