Biden's First Climate Actions Are Missing Coal's Long Tail

Josh Lappen The Nation February 2, 2021
Biden's First Climate Actions Are Missing Coal's Long Tail
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In its first two weeks, the nascent Biden administration has begun to stake out a serious climate action agenda. Biden’s already substantial campaign trail pledgesand transition-period policy plans have unfurled into a sweeping set of first stepsthat implicate nearly the entire federal government. The White House’s newest multipart executive order on climate change and environmental justice takes important steps toward ending federal fossil fuel subsidies, jump-starting mass markets for EVs and other fossil-free products, embedding climate considerations in every federal agency’s decision-making, and accounting for racial and geographic inequities when apportioning the benefits of climate action.
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