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• https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/climate-environment/biden-climate-environment-actions/

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/22/biden-climate-change/

President Biden has placed climate change squarely at the center of his White House agenda, using his first hours in office to rejoin the Paris climate accord and begin overturning more than 100 environmental actions taken by the Trump administration.

He has in the past week made it clear he will go well beyond reversing former president Donald Trump’s policies. On Jan. 27 he signed an executive order that elevated climate change as a national security issue; instructed every agency to take climate change into account when formulating its policies; directed the government to buy clean and zero-emission vehicles for federal, state, local and tribal government fleets; established a new civilian conservation corps; and ordered a plan for conserving 30 percent of America’s lands and waters by the end of the decade.

“In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can’t wait any longer,” Biden told reporters. “We see it with our own eyes. We feel it. We know it in our bones and it’s time to act.”

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