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Presidential Executive Order 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crisis,” a long and unusually detailed Executive Order published in the
Federal Register on February 1, 2021 (see 86 FR 7619), has generated considerable discussion and commentary. Below, I briefly outline its provisions.
This EO describes the “climate crisis” in existential terms:
“There is little time left to avoid setting the world on a dangerous, potentially catastrophic climate trajectory.” Confronting and combating climate change will be an important component of American foreign policy and national security, and domestically, the federal government’s resources will be mobilized to deploy a “govern-wide approach to the climate crisis.”
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Throughout Climate Week, several commitments and initiatives
were announced by various agencies and countries. This roundup
highlights some of the key details on items that were released.
White House Announcements
For the U.S. nationally determined contribution (NDC)
under the Paris Agreement, President Joe Biden committed the nation to reducing its
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50 percent to 52 percent below
its 2005 emissions by 2030.
President Biden announced international climate finance commitments to assist developing
countries reduce GHG emissions.
The Biden Administration released a new report from the Interagency Working
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Climate Change Follies President Biden’s war on fracking will raise electricity prices while accomplishing nothing on climate.
Infrastructure and energy
Politics and law
Don Quixote would be proud of President Biden’s climate-change executive orders, which take windmill-tilting to new heights. They will have no effect on the climate but will fall on the U.S. economy like a cudgel.
The most significant of Biden’s orders is the one banning new drilling permits and hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on all federal lands and offshore waters. Though only about 10 percent of fracking now takes place on federal lands, Biden is also calling for a “rigorous review” of permitting and leasing on all public lands. Many believe this is a prelude to a permanent ban on oil and gas development on those lands, and a complete ban on fracking, which progressives advocate.
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