[co-author: Shawn Whites]
Key Points:
On Earth Day, the Biden-Harris administration announced a new target for the United States to achieve a 50 to 52 percent reduction in economy-wide GHG emissions by 2030, which constitutes the country’s new NDC under the Paris Agreement.
To achieve the new NDC, the United States envisions a “whole-of-government” approach to catalyze opportunities for businesses to partner with the federal government to rapidly transform the power, transportation, buildings, industrial and agriculture and lands sectors.
The close partisan split in Congress likely will force the administration to rely on a combination of agency regulation and other executive actions to demonstrate progress toward achieving the NDC.
Key Points:
On Earth Day, the Biden-Harris administration announced a new
target for the United States to achieve a 50 to 52 percent
reduction in economy-wide GHG emissions by 2030, which constitutes
the country s new NDC under the Paris Agreement.
To achieve the new NDC, the United States envisions a whole-of-government approach to catalyze opportunities
for businesses to partner with the federal government to rapidly
transform the power, transportation, buildings, industrial and
agriculture and lands sectors.
The close partisan split in Congress likely will force the
administration to rely on a combination of agency regulation and
other executive actions to demonstrate progress toward achieving
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On January 20, 2021, President Joseph Biden issued Executive Order No. 13990 (“Executive Order”), which, among other things, suspended Executive Order 13920, “Securing the United States Bulk-Power System” (“Executive Order 13920”) until April 20, 2021 and directed all executive departments and agencies to review and take action to address all actions taken during former-President Donald Trump’s tenure in office that conflict with President Biden’s stated goals of improving public health, environmental protection, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, bolstering resilience to the impacts of climate change, and confronting the climate crisis.
In the Executive Order, President Biden suspended Executive Order No. 13920 for 90 days, until April 20, 2021. During such time, the Secretary of Energy and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) are required to jointly consider whether to recomm
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Shortly after inauguration, President Joseph R. Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) entitled “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.” This sweeping Executive Order instructs several agencies including the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct a major review of the previous administration’s regulatory rollback, scrutinizing any “federal regulations and other executive actions … that were harmful to public health, damaging to the environment, unsupported by the best available science, or otherwise not in the national interest.” The EO enumerates over 100 agency actions from the past four years for review and directs these agencies to “consider suspending, revising, or rescinding” any that are inconsistent with the EO’s objective.