On Wednesday, President Biden visited Somerset, Massachusetts, and spoke at what used to be the largest fossil-fuel-burning power plant in New England. In front of the shuttered Brayton Point Power Station, Biden announced new executive orders to direct funding towards the impacts of climate change. "Today I'm making the largest investment ever. $2.3 billion to help communities across the country build infrastructure that's designed to withstand the full range of disasters we've been seeing up to today extreme heat, drought, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes," Biden said. 

But environmental groups have been urging Biden to go further than executive actions: to invoke a national climate emergency. They say this would empower the administration to take even more substantial steps against climate change.

For more on this we speak with Jean Su, the Energy Justice director at the Center for Biological Diversity. Jean also co-authored a report that details how Biden could use the powers of an emergency declaration on climate. It’s called “The Climate President’s Emergency Powers.”