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The Atlantic Hope for the future is a reasonable and necessary prerequisite for action. H. Abernathy / ClassicStock / Getty It feels as if the world is on fire and it is. In the last days of the Trump administration, U.S. government scientists announced that 2020 was one of the two hottest years in recorded history. The other hottest year was 2016: fittingly, the year that the United States elected Donald Trump president, a disaster for the environment as well as democratic norms. I am an environmental writer, and in the environmental world, the past year in particular has felt like an endless series of reactions to immediate crises: constant rollbacks of environmental protections, the pandemic complicating environmental work, colossal wildfires that torched the West. (The offices of the local climate-justice organization I volunteer for literally burned to the ground, for example.) We were so busy coping with immediate catastrophes, we had little time to make thin ....
353 views United States Government/Wikipedia News reports Wednesday heralded the dawn of a new era in U.S. climate, energy, and environmental justice policy, as President Joe Biden marked his first day in office by signing a wave of executive orders to begin rolling back four years of deregulation under Donald Trump. “Biden has declared climate change one of the four top issues for his administration,” Politico Morning Energy writes, and he got started down that road with orders to return the U.S. to the Paris Agreement and cancel the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Those and multiple other Day One executive actions “reorient the U.S. toward putting the country on a path to eliminate planet-heating emissions on the power grid by 2035 and economy-wide in 2050,” touching on more than 100 specific actions Trump had taken. ....
Biden Signs Sweeping Orders to Tackle Climate Change and Rollback Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy The new president moved immediately to review more than 100 Trump administration actions and restore the protection of federal lands and the regulation of greenhouse gases. January 21, 2021 President Joe Biden takes the oath of office during the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Related Share this article In the early hours on Wednesday, as the sun was setting on one presidency and rising on another but long before it would actually peek over the horizon two men did two very different things. ....