President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is pushing "very hard" for ending "all" oil drilling on the East Coast, West Coast, and in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Weather Channel meteorologist and Pattrn co-host Stephanie Abrams pressed the president in a sit-down interview about his climate change agenda.
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“Let’s talk Gen Z because they’re going to play a big role in the next presidential election, and many of them are angry about the 7,000 oil and gas permits you approved since you’ve been in office. You promised no new drilling on federal land or offshore. Can you tell Gen Z that you haven’t broken your promise?” Abrams asked.
Joe Biden: “I wanted to stop all the drilling on the east coast, and the west coast, and in the Gulf, but I lost in court. But, we’re still pushing, we’re still pushing really, very hard.” pic.twitter.com/phgmFp9i55
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Biden responded, “Yes because the courts overruled me. The courts said I couldn’t do it. I wanted to stop all drilling on the East Coast and the West Coast and in the Gulf, but I lost in court.”
He added, “The private sector’s coming off the sidelines. They’ve invested $250 billion in alternative energy. They’re building solar facilities. They’re building … you know, there’s electrolyzers to take hydrogen and turn it. … I mean, there’s so much going on.”
“Finally, finally, no one can any longer deny that we don’t have a problem with climate change,” Biden said.
While at the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the Biden administration banned any new uranium mining projects on nearly 1 million acres of public land adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park.
“Nationally, we’ve conserved more land. We’ve moved into rejoining the Paris climate accord … [and] we passed a $360 billion climate control facility,” Biden said in his Weather Channel interview.
“We’re moving. It is the existential threat to America,” the president added.
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When Abrams asked to clarify if he had already declared a national emergency on climate change, Biden said, “Practically speaking, yes.”
On Wednesday, the president delivered remarks at a groundbreaking for Arcosa, a wind tower manufacturing facility expanding operations in Albuquerque, New Mexico.