“The last four years have been an unrelenting assault on our public health and environmental protections on an unprecedented scale,” said Jill Tauber, the vice president of litigation for climate and energy at Earthjustice.
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His order also directed federal agencies to review more than 100 rules that the Trump administration made on the environment, with an eye to potentially overturning many of them.
The president moved to rejoin the Paris agreement and signaled a review of vehicle emissions standards. It’s an urgent plan, predicated upon Biden’s belief that there is no time to waste.Īfter four years of steady erosion of the nation’s climate policy, Biden offered big plans on day one. Biden, who ran on the most progressive and comprehensive climate plan of any presidential candidate in history, took the oath of office just before noon outside a Capitol building ransacked two weeks ago by a Trump-supporting mob, and Wednesday evening signed executive orders aimed at aggressively fighting both the pandemic and climate change-something Trump glaringly failed to do.įrom revoking the Keystone XL pipeline permit to reviewing actions that rolled back clean air and water protections, the sweeping directives laid a road map for the work ahead on the climate crisis.
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