Joe Biden Undoes All Of Trump's Environmental Attacks In One Day

 

     By appointing John Kerry, decorated war veteran and the former secretary of state who negotiated the Paris Agreement, as a special climate advisor, President Joe Biden was able to skip the process of Senate confirmation. Kerry's job will be to guide the climate policy of Joe Biden.

     Other promising signs include a pair of executive orders. The first made the United States the last nation to join the Paris Climate Agreement, which Donald Trump officially left on October 1st, 2019. This agreement sets targets for the United States to reduce carbon emissions, mostly by phasing out fossil fuels. The second cancelled construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, a U.S.-Canada pipeline that President Barack Obama vetoed repeatedly and Trump was only able to secure via executive order.

     This executive order also cancels oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and orders all government agencies to review and reinstate every single environmental regulation Trump repealed in his time in the White House.

     The United States is the second-largest carbon producer in the world, and Biden has also been urged to declare a climate state of emergency. He has pledged to phase out offshore oil drilling and coal and end fracking on federal land.