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President Joe Biden signed sweeping actions to combat climate change just hours after taking the oath of office, moving to rejoin the Paris accord and imposing a moratorium on oil leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Environmentalists said Bidenâs actions some of which could take years to be implemented renew the US commitment to safeguarding the environment and signal to the world that America has returned to the global fight against climate change.
The moves mark a dramatic rebuke of President Donald Trumpâs pro-industry approach to energy and the environment.
by Bloomberg
|Thursday, January 21, 2021
Biden s flurry of actions drew opposition from industry and, with Paris, even a key Senate Democrat.
(Bloomberg) President Joe Biden signed sweeping actions to combat climate change just hours after taking the oath of office, moving to rejoin the Paris accord and imposing a moratorium on oil leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Environmentalists said Biden’s actions some of which could take years to be implemented renew the U.S. commitment to safeguarding the environment and signal to the world that America has returned to the global fight against climate change.
Environmentalists said Biden’s actions some of which could take years to be implemented will renew the U.S. commitment to safeguarding the environment and signal to the world that America has returned to the global fight against climate change.
In December 2020, Indigenous advocates and allies from around the world joined a virtual town hall on the last operating conventional uranium mill in the United States. The White Mesa uranium mill sits on the doorstep of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, just a few miles up the road from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s White Mesa community, and has been flying under the radar as a de facto dumping ground for low-level radioactive waste for decades.
The town hall, called “Indigenous People and Environmental Justice at White Mesa: Confronting the Last Uranium Mill in the U.S.,” gave attendees a chance to learn about the White Mesa Ute community’s and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe s struggle against uranium pollution, as well as more about the nuclear fuel cycle’s impacts to Indigenous communities.