As Biden Issues Groundbreaking Climate Orders, Activists Push to Ban Fracking
President Joe Biden prepares to sign executive orders after speaking about climate change issues in the State Dining Room of the White House on January 27, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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On Wednesday, the Biden administration delivered a second surge of orders responding to activist demands to address the climate emergency head-on at every level of the federal government. Like no mandate a U.S. president has signed off on before, the Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad lays out a plan to measure and mitigate pollution that has disproportionately harmed low-income, Black, Indigenous and other communities of color living on the fence lines of industry for decades. It is a government-wide attempt to avert the most catastrophic impacts of the climate crisis and build a more vibrant and equitable society that acknowledges the legacy of harm over a
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Oil Change International response to Biden climate announcements on oil and gas leases, fossil fuel subsidies
Today, President Joe Biden is expected to sign executive orders advancing a broad range of actions to confront the climate crisis, including directing the Interior Department to enact a temporary pause on new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters.
Biden is also expected to direct federal agencies to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies as consistent with applicable law, instruct all agencies to prioritize environmental justice, establish the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, and announce the date of a new international climate summit on April 22, among other actions.
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Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, tmckinnon@biologicaldiversity.org
Millions of People, Hundreds of Groups Support Halting Fossil Fuel Leasing & Permitting on Public Lands, Oceans
WASHINGTON Environmental justice, Indigenous, climate and conservation groups from across the country announced today that they have delivered millions of petitions and public comments, and letters from hundreds of organizations, supporting a halt on new fossil fuel leasing and permitting on public lands and oceans.
Biden has promised to ‘ban’ new leasing and permitting activities. Calls to ban fracking on federal lands began in began in 2013 and expanded in 2015 to oppose all new fossil fuel leasing. Virtually every acre of federal lands leased for oil and gas by the Trump administration is under some form of legal chal
Leading the way
January 24, 2021
On Wednesday, the Biden-Harris Administration took its first important step forward in restoring the United States’ climate agenda by re-entering the Paris Climate Agreement and rescinding the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
While the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) is surely enthusiastic about the renewed commitment to the Paris accord, we know that to truly address the global climate emergency, governments must place front and center a climate justice framework, and not only fulfill, but exceed the targets in the Paris Climate Agreement – as scientists have warned is necessary. With last year’s COP26 delayed until this November because of the Covid-19 pandemic, governments have another year to set themselves on track, yet many of the world’s largest emitters remain stagnant and display a lack of ambition to curb emissions and cut pollution at a scale commensurate with the science and the climate cris