Biden urged to act as climate agenda hangs by a thread | First Thing

Failure to pass legislation to cut emissions before the UN summit in Glasgow could be catastrophic. Plus, the danger of psychological diagnoses

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Joe Biden is facing increasing pressure over a climate agenda that appears to be hanging by a thread. The president has been warned that time is running perilously short, both politically and scientifically, for the US to enact sweeping measures to slash planet-heating emissions.

What's the deadline to pass the package of bills? 31 October but negotiations are dragging on between the White House, Democratic leaders and a pair of centrist holdouts in the Senate.

If successful, what will it mean? The legislation would slash US emissions by about 1bn tons by 2030, bringing Biden within striking distance of his target of cutting the country's emissions in half by this point.

The incident received little publicity until Bryan's video of the confrontation was leaked online and went viral in May 2020, outraging civil rights groups who were furious that the men had not been arrested or charged.

Arbery's death was one of several killings of Black people that sparked racial protests across the US last summer, including the murder of George Floyd and the death of Breonna Taylor at the hands of law enforcement officers.