The president of the United States, Joe Biden, continues to be one of the presidents who appears most often in misleading or false publications. On June 7, a post appeared on Facebook alleging the following: “Biden Declares State of Emergency Over Threat of Power Generation Capacity Shortage.” In the text, it is also stated that the US president “exempts imports of certain solar cells and modules from Asia from taxes.” A measure that “will be valid for two years and is valid for products imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.” It is, however, a publication that distorts a measure actually taken by the US president.

Looking again at what the author shared, there is no data, information or news to confirm what he claims. On the other hand, looking for similar news in this regard, it is found that on June 6, Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act (DPA) to “accelerate the national manufacturing of clean energy,” according to a note from his government. . Department of Energy.

This regulation was passed in the 1950s during the Korean War and also applied during the long period of the Cold War. It serves, above all, so that any president of the United States has greater control over various national industries and, consequently, the production of different products/materials/necessary goods in the country. It has already been used during this administration, for example, in the pandemic, to speed up vaccination processes against Covid-19.

The goal of the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris administration’s DPA is said to be “reducing energy costs for families, increasing national security, and ensuring American energy independence that reduces demand for fossil fuels.” Also in 2022, the same Secretariat released a report with the guidelines to start the transition to clean energies, which will focus on the production of various types of energy, from solar to wind, as well as the bet – which is coming a while throughout Europe, in electric cars. So the intention is there, the financial funds too, but it is different from saying that Biden declared a state of energy emergency in the country.

Also in July, more news broke about an alleged state of emergency announcement by Joe Biden. The Conversation website described a trip by the US president to Massachusetts, where a coal production area was to become a site for manufacturing wind equipment. Still, and despite pressure from various Democrats and activists, Biden did not announce the alleged state of emergency in the original post.

However, according to the White House, this is still a viable option, but it has not yet materialized, according to another newspaper, The Washington Post. Lastly, it is important to say that similar publications in other languages ​​have also been denied by other international fact-checkers such as AFP.

Other US executives have already declared states of emergency in the energy field, both under Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

conclusion

It is not true that Joe Biden recently declared a state of energy emergency, as various Facebook posts claim. The only recent decision related to this matter was the invocation of the Defense Production Law related to the production of clean energy within the country, last June. Although various Democrats and activists are pressing the current US administration to declare a state of energy emergency, that decision has not yet been made by the White House.

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DECEIVER

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