iPolitics By iPolitics . Published on Jan 28, 2021 1:04pm (Joe Biden/Twitter)
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President Joe Biden signed a slew of executive actions on Wednesday aimed at fighting climate change, which included halting new oil and gas leases on federal land and the cutting of fossil fuel subsidies, Reuters reports.
“In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis,” Biden said at a White House ceremony, highlighting the threats the nation faces from extreme weather changes linked to climate change.
Meanwhile, reactions to Biden’s executive orders have been mixed, according to BNN Bloomberg.
“The era of putting polluters’ profits first is over,” said Josh Axelrod, senior advocate for the nature program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “We can’t lock our children and grandchildren into decades more of the dirty fossil fuels of the past, and all the hazards and harms they bring to our public lands, oceans and coastal comm