Biden’s Cancer Remark Referred to Past, White House Says

Democrat President Joe Biden appeared to claim during remarks about climate change on Wednesday afternoon that he has cancer.

Speaking in Somerset, Massachusetts, about what he wants to do about the climate and creating energy jobs, Biden talked about his childhood and oil pollution growing up in Delaware.

“Five years ago, this towering power plant that once stood with cooling towers 500 feet high closed down,” Biden said. “The coal plant at Brayton Point was the largest of its kind in New England. 1,500 megawatts of power, enough to power one in five Massachusetts homes and businesses.”

Biden said that the plant had a bad “legacy” of “toxins, smog, greenhouse gas emissions,” which he said contributed to the “climate emergency.” Biden said that Gina McCarthy, who was a former regulator in Massachusetts, told him that people “used to get a rag out and wipe the gunk off of their car’s windshield in the morning just to be able to drive.”