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A study of the “Greta Thunberg Effect” finds that those familiar with the young Swedish climate activist “have higher intentions of taking collective actions to reduce global warming.”
On January 27, a day the White House declared to be Climate Day, President Joe Biden signs a raft of executive orders to address climate change, focusing on jobs and environmental justice and centering climate change in every aspect of the federal government. One of them halts all new oil and gas leases on federal land and offshore waters.
Another executive order signed by Biden commits the United States to protecting 30 percent of US land and coastal waters by 2030.