The Biden Administration Is Fulfilling Its Conservation Promises in the First 100 Days
April 30, 2021, 4:00 am
With the passage of a massive economic rescue bill, more than 200 million vaccines distributed, a historically diverse Cabinet in place, and a pledge to cut carbon emissions upward of 50 percent, it’s clear that the Biden administration has wasted no time during its first 100 days. As part of its effort to take a whole-of-government approach to solving the overlapping health, economic, racial justice, and climate crises, the administration has also been rapidly fulfilling its conservation commitments to the American public.
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Primarily via the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), President Joe Biden has made strides in ambitiously conserving land and water, prioritizing tribal consultation, combating climate change, listening to scientists, and making the transition to clean energy. These bold investments in the conservation and restoration of America’s natu
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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
Longtime Alaska attorney who represented tribes named to leadership position in Interior Department Published February 3
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Print article A former longtime attorney with the Native American Rights Fund in Alaska and a citizen of Oklahoma’s Chickasaw Nation has taken a leadership position in President Joe Biden’s Interior Department, the agency said in a statement Wednesday. Natalie Landreth will serve as deputy solicitor for land, a position that could place her in the middle of major legal questions involving natural resource development and land protections in Alaska and nationally, said Heather Kendall-Miller, a retired senior staff attorney with NARF who has worked in Alaska with Landreth and remains involved with the organization.
28 January 2021 23:00 GMT Updated 28 January 2021 23:00 GMT in London
US President Joe Biden this week signed an executive order that will give Indigenous leaders, including those in oil and gas-rich states such as Alaska, a greater say in projects and policies that impact them.
One of four executive orders Biden signed on 26 January, Executive Order 13175 charges all US executive departments and agencies with engaging in “regular, meaningful and robust consultation” with Tribal officials in the development of federal policies that have Tribal implications.
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President Joe Biden passed several climate-related executive orders on his first day in office earlier this week. Among those is an order reinstating the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area, an Obama-era executive order that includes protections from off-shore oil and gas leasing in the Norton Sound as well as waters around St. Lawrence Island.
The original order was revoked in the early months of President Donald Trump’s presidency.
The reinstated order outlines policies on marine shipping, pollution, marine debris, and oil spills among other Arctic marine-related issues. The entire “resilience area” stretches over 112,300 square miles from the Kuskokwim Bay to the southern border of the Chukchi Sea.