Mr. Biden will speak in Seattle on Friday to highlight the efforts his administration has made on climate aside from legislation. Those include a major push on solar and offshore wind development, new regulations to curb carbon dioxide from tailpipes and methane from oil and gas wells, and a ban on hydrofluorocarbons — Earth-warming chemicals used in air-conditioning and refrigeration. He will also on Friday sign an executive order creating an inventory of mature and old-growth forests on federal lands, and establish what the White House calls “climate-smart management and conservation strategies” for those forests.
“We really hope to hear they are ready to make good on the promises that President Biden ran on,” said Betamia Coronel, an organizer in New York with the Center for Popular Democracy advocacy group.
Ramon Cruz, president of the Sierra Club, said activists upset with the Biden administration are misdirecting their anger.
Fossil fuel companies and lawmakers who are blocking legislation “should be the target of our frustration and anger, not the people who are trying to do something,” Mr. Cruz said.
Organizers of the Washington rally have tightly choreographed the event in concert with the White House, lining up speakers from the administration including Ali Zaidi, the White House deputy national adviser, to try to deflect blame away from Mr. Biden.
John Paul Mejia, 19, a spokesman for the Sunrise Movement, a climate advocacy organization, got involved after living through Hurricane Irma in his hometown, Miami, and witnessing firsthand the challenges poorer communities faced.
He called passing climate legislation “the fight of my generation” and spoke of the “gut-wrenching uncertainty about the people and places I love being here tomorrow” as sea-level rise, violent storms and floods menace Miami.
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