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President Joe Biden issued a series of executive orders on January 27 to further confront the “existential threat” of climate change, to reaffirm the executive branch’s commitment to evidence-based policymaking and innovation, and to build on the executive actions
taken on Day 1. This LawFlash provides an overview of several of the key actions under those orders.
ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AT HOME AND ABROAD
The
Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad(Climate Order) aims to spur domestic action and cooperation with international partners to address the impacts of climate change, which the president describes as a “climate crisis.” The Climate Order initiates a series of planned actions at the federal government level, including the creation of new executive-level offices and senior administration roles, a directive to halt new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or offshore waters, and the establishment of an Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and a White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council. We discuss key components of the Climate Order below.