In climate push, Biden bets on cutting fossil fuels while protecting jobs
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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. Biden depicted his climate policies as an employment plan for the U.S., arguing that fighting warming global temperatures and carbon pollution by improving infrastructure and transportation technology will add millions of jobs. Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times/BloombergAnna Moneymaker / Bloomberg
WASHINGTON President Joe Biden began shifting the United States from fossil fuels through a series of executive orders Wednesday, carrying through on a campaign promise to fight climate change while protecting the economies of states such as Texas that have delivered the nation’s energy supply for more than a century.