After the failure of climate legislation, Biden is considering executive action.

Last week, Senator Joe Manchin dealt a severe blow to his party’s economic package plans by stating that he would never support the provisions for climate and tax action. In response to this, President Joe Biden is now considering the use of executive action on matters of climate change, which has become a much more pressing issue in recent years, particularly in the face of the extreme heat wave hitting Europe right now.

“The President made clear that if the Senate doesn’t act to tackle the climate crisis and strengthen our domestic clean energy industry, he will. We are considering all options and no decision has been made,” a White House official told CNN.

Biden has been encouraged to make efforts toward mitigating any further climate change, as well as strengthening regulations on private businesses to prevent pollution, ozone damage, and overindulgence. Though, this pursuit has been complicated by equally pressing matters like rising gas prices, for which a balance needs to be sought.

“We need to take whatever measures we can to accelerate all the work that we’re doing to make sure that we can address the climate emergency crisis that the world is facing,” special presidential coordinator for international energy affairs Amos Hochstein told CNN.

“We have to do two things at the same time, and that’s what the President wants to do. And that is to accelerate the energy transition, to get us moving a lot faster on deployment of renewable energy on manufacturing of and deployment of electric vehicles, but at the same time, we recognize that we need to do that in a way that still allows for lower prices at the pump, lower prices of energy, overall electricity, gasoline, diesel,” Hochstein said.