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In 2017, Hurricane Harvey’s historic U.S. rainfall forced out over 30,000 people and ravaged 200,000 homes and businesses. In 2018, California experienced its costliest, deadliest and largest wildfires to date, costing over 25 billion dollars in damages. Also, in 2019, historic inland flooding in the Midwest inundated millions of acres of agriculture, cities and towns and widespread damage to infrastructure.
America’s new normal of fleeing from extreme weather in search of safety shows no signs of slowing. Last year, the United States experienced a record-breaking 22 billion-dollar disasters, displacing thousands of Americans from California to Louisiana.
But with the inauguration of President Biden
Biden s first days in office were way better than I expected
I have no doubt that Biden will deeply disappoint me. That day is not today.
So far, Biden looks like he s on a roll.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty: Zuma
Feb. 1, 2021, 8:47 PM UTC
I have a confession to make. During the Democratic presidential primaries, I was one of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s fiercest critics on the left. I reminded readers how he was the architect of the 1994 crime bill. I reminded listeners how he was the champion of the credit card industry. I reminded viewers how he had misled us over Iraq.
Transcript of President Biden s speech before signing executive orders on climate action
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WASHINGTON - Today is Climate Day at the White House and which means that today is Jobs Day at the White House. We’re talking about American innovation, American products, American labor. And we’re talking about the health of our families and cleaner water, cleaner air, and cleaner communities. We’re talking about national security and America leading the world in a clean energy future.
It’s a future of enormous hope and opportunity. It’s about coming to the moment to deal with this maximum threat that we that’s now facing us climate change with a greater sense of urgency. In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis and we can’t wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones, and it’s time to act.
President Joe Biden has proved that, if nothing else, he has a pen and a phone. According to The Economist, he signed more executive orders in his first two days than President Donald Trump signed in nearly his first two months. And he was just getting started. Republicans have no standing to complain about Biden’s […]
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fter the chaos of the Trump presidency, many are looking to the Biden-Harris administration with starry eyes and a budding hope for the future. President Joe Biden has hit the ground running with executive orders that are effectively canceling former president Donald Trump’s most heinous offenses, many of which were essentially aiding and abetting climate change.
Biden has also made it clear that tackling climate change is a top priority, assembling a “climate cabinet,” and setting a plan to ban new drilling for fossil fuels on federal land. However, some of the president’s choices for his climate cabinet have progressives on edge. While it is important to acknowledge that his administration is the most diverse in the history of the United States, and while some members of the climate cabinet are poised to shine, others are far from ideal.