“I’ve already” declared a national climate emergency”
What PolitiFact found
Although Biden has signed legislation and taken executive actions intended to curb climate change, he has not signed a formal emergency declaration, despite urgings of some lawmakers and environmental groups.
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In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 9 August 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 August 2023, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- weather.comhttps://weather.com/news/climate/video/president-biden-says-climate-is-existential-threat…
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