Biden to announce new steps to tackle climate crisis amid ferocious US heatwave - live

President not expected to declare climate emergency Sign up to receive First Thing - our daily briefing by email Nine Democratic senators have today written Biden a letter urging him to declare a climate crisis immediately, which they say would give the executive branch extraordinary powers to lower America's carbon emissions. The letter comes ahead of Biden's speech this afternoon where he's expected to announce executive orders to fight climate change, but not declare an emergency. "For too lo...