Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urged the White House to take action on climate change after Democrats’ last hope for a climate bill derailed in the Senate.
The New York Democrat said congressional failure to pass climate change legislation makes it President Biden’s responsibility to do something.
“We have communicated over a dozen executive orders to the president,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said Friday. “Everything from declaring a national emergency to using his authority to really shaping his approach to how fossil fuels get authorized, how vehicles are authorized, there’s [power] in the executive branch and I think it is time to use it.