What Is a Climate Emergency and Will Joe Biden Declare One in U.S?

For a while now, there have been rumblings that President Joe Biden will declare a climate emergency in the U.S.

Senate Democrats are urging him to do so after Democratic Senator Joe Manchin's refusal last week to back his party's spending plans to tackle climate change.

The president could declare this soon in an attempt to save and push forward his environmental agenda.

An emergency order would allow Biden to direct federal funding to clean-energy projects and give him broad powers to restrict oil drilling and curb fossil fuel flows, Bloomberg reported.