Author: Paul Hodgson
US government agencies have been told to start aligning with the new climate agenda. Paul Hodgson looks at the Biden appointments most likely to trans… US government agencies have been told to start aligning with the new climate agenda. Paul Hodgson looks at the Bide… US government agencies have been told to start aligning with the new climate agenda. Paul Hodgson looks at the Biden appointments most likely to transform the landscape for climate and climate finance
So said Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, on US national public radio’s programme Living on Earth last week.
The day after his inauguration, US President Joseph Biden unveiled a series of the boldest environmental protection and climate risk mitigation goals of any US president, as well as announcing actions designed to unwind former president Donald Trump’s ‘hellish’ energy and climate legacy. In addition, judges - some nominated by Trump - gave the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) broad authority to control greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power plants, opening up permission for a huge component of Biden’s climate agenda.
As part of a ‘day one’ executive order, apart from announcing that the US will rejoin the Paris Accord, Biden also scrapped Trump’s presidential permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, designed to bring heavily polluting tar sands oil from Canada across sacred Native America…