may god bless you all, and may god protect our troops. thank you. president biden there at braden point power plant in summerset, massachusetts, making what he says will be the first of several announcements on executive actions to combat climate change. he announced today that he says he will not take no for an answer, but this comes after essentially getting a no or at least a not yet from center joe manchin of west virginia on his climate proposals. let s bring in now cnn s chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny, cnn s climate chief correspondent bill weir and cnn senior political correspondent abby phillip, welcome to all of you. bill, before we get into what the president did not say today about an emergency, cannot do, because he doesn t have congress on board, talk about the significant of what he has announced, what he is able to do that we have learned today. it s a really drop in the
slick off the window. that s why i and so many damn other people with have cancer and why can t for the longest time, delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation, but that s the past and we are going to build a different future. with 1, 1 with clean energy, good paying jobs. 15 years ago america generated more than half electricity from coal. coal-fired plants. today that s down to 20%. because there s a big transition happening. many of these fossil fuel plants are becoming sites for new clean energy construction, others are switching to new clean technologies. look at braden point. today braden is on the frontier of clean energy in america. on this site they will manufacture 248 miles of high-tech heavy duty cables. those specialized sub c cables
explanation, and even giving them the benefit of the doubt. one thing as an investigator you look at is what s past conduct in this regard regarding january 6th. and i would say that the secret service has a lot of explaining to do, not just the texts. about their agents and what did the agents know and why are they throwing other witnesses under the bus and never testifying to apparently counter narratives that they have. i mean, this is part of a larger issue, which is they parts of the secret service view themselves as protecting the former president rather than protecting the peaceful transition of power, which is what the constitution should guarantee. julia, with all that context, are you at a point now knowing what we know about this exchange and the lack of text messages handed over, are you prepared to go beyond skepticism and say that you believe something
following, you cannot ask people to do certain things. second, he s sending folks out from the labor department to make sure we hold workplaces and those standards that are being set. they have already completed over 500 heat-related inspections of workplaces across 43 states, and the end of the day it s going to save lives. now let me tell you why we are here at braden point. five years ago this towering power plant that stood with cooling towers 500 feet high closed down. the coal plant was the largest of its kind in new england. 1,500 megawatts of power, to power one in five massachusetts homes and businesses. over 50 years it was in the economy through the electricity they supplied, with jobs they provided and the local taxes they paid. but the plant, like many others around the country, had another