- President not expected to declare climate emergency
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Good morning, US politics live blog readers. After it became clear last week that he lacks the votes to get Congress to pass his proposals lowering US carbon emissions, President Joe Biden will head to Massachusetts today to announce new steps to tackle climate change – though he won’t declare an emergency, as some of his allies have called for.
That’s not all that’s expected today: