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On January 20, 2021, President Joseph Biden issued Executive Order No. 13990 (“Executive Order”), which, among other things, suspended Executive Order 13920, “Securing the United States Bulk-Power System” (“Executive Order 13920”) until April 20, 2021 and directed all executive departments and agencies to review and take action to address all actions taken during former-President Donald Trump’s tenure in office that conflict with President Biden’s stated goals of improving public health, environmental protection, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, bolstering resilience to the impacts of climate change, and confronting the climate crisis.
In the Executive Order, President Biden suspended Executive Order No. 13920 for 90 days, until April 20, 2021. During such time, the Secretary of Energy and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) are required to jointly consider whether to recomm
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Shortly after inauguration, President Joseph R. Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) entitled “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.” This sweeping Executive Order instructs several agencies including the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct a major review of the previous administration’s regulatory rollback, scrutinizing any “federal regulations and other executive actions … that were harmful to public health, damaging to the environment, unsupported by the best available science, or otherwise not in the national interest.” The EO enumerates over 100 agency actions from the past four years for review and directs these agencies to “consider suspending, revising, or rescinding” any that are inconsistent with the EO’s objective.
Biden Orders Immediate Confrontation of Climate Crisis
On Jan. 20, President Joe Biden signed an executive order entitled, “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.” It establishes the Biden administration’s commitment to immediately work to confront both the causes and impacts of climate change by implementing policy guided by science. The order rolls back many actions taken by the Trump administration to loosen environmental standards and protections and calls on all federal agency heads to review and “consider suspending, revising, or rescinding the agency actions” that may be inconsistent with Biden’s articulated policy. It also effectively recommits the U.S. to the 2015 Paris Climate Accords, a multilateral treaty designed to reduce carbon emissions and address climate change, which President Trump withdrew the U.S. from in 2017.
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As a favor to the community I m posting President Biden s order to agencies to undertake a review of Trump era environmental regulations.
Yesterday was also an important day for Mother Nature and the nation. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously tossed the Trump administration s replacement for Obama s Clean Power Plan (CPP) back to EPA. The Agency will now be coming out with some version of the CPP.
Look for my continuing comments on these and other Biden administration efforts to put the nation s economy on a low-carbon trajectory.
In the meantime, feel free to ask questions you might have. I ll do my best to answer them.