President Biden's Biggest Achievement? His Environmental Agenda.

     On day one of his administration, just hours after taking the oath of office, President Biden signed executive orders undoing dozens of Donald Trump's most controversial policies. Among these orders were the cancellation of permits for the Keystone XL Pipeline and rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement.

     This was just the beginning of what would amount to be the most successful climate agenda of any administration in American history. With executive action alone, President Biden suspended tariffs on solar, increased the availability of clean energy minerals, oversaw the first offshore wind projects in American history, increased fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, protected American forests and fisheries, and created a plan for the federal government to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 as well as a plan for the United States to cut its carbon emissions in half by 2030.

     This climate action has extended to the global stage. President Biden ratified the Kigali Amendment, which phases out HCFs over the next 15 years. This is expected to create tens of thousands of jobs in the U.S. alone, save millions of lives globally, and ensure that the Ozone is fully restored by 2065. At COP28, nations agreed for the first time to phase out fossil fuels by 2050. At the G7, the United States secured an agreement to phase out coal by 2035 in these nations, which represent 40 percent of the global economy.

     Historic legislation has provided even more successes. The Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act represent the two largest investments in clean energy, climate change, and environmental protection in American history at a combined total of over half a trillion dollars. These investments alone are expected to help America cut its carbon emissions by 41 percent by 2030, up from the 26 percent reduction the United States was on track to achieve before the laws were signed. Executive action and legislative action could easily help the United States hit its 50 percent target if President Biden and Vice President Harris (whose tie-breaking votes passed the IRA) were re-elected. Even more legislation on climate is currently pending, including the ADVANCE Act, which would fundamentally reenvision American nuclear energy.

     It's not just climate at the heart of President Biden's environmental agenda, which is the most aggressive and successful in the past 50 years. President Biden launched the "America the Beautiful" Initiative to protect 30 percent of America's land and water by 2030, and he has protected more land and water at this point in his administration than any president ever. Legislation and budgets signed by Biden have allocated tens of billions of dollars for hundreds of environmental cleanup and restoration projects, from cleaning the Great Lakes and the Everglades to planting tens of millions of trees to cleaning up Superfund sites and even protecting rainforests in various locations globally.

     Donald Trump spent his four years in office weakening hundreds of environmental regulations and appointing Supreme Court justices to keep doing the same. President Biden has spent the past four years launching and improving on thousands of projects and regulations aimed at doing the exact opposite, aimed at protecting the environment, saving our climate, and ensuring a liveable planet for generations to come. To support President Biden, click here.