Scientists say the world has the next decade or so to avoid the most dire environmental scenarios, so we must invest in land restoration, two environmental advocates say.
America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.
Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.
The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.
Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.
More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.
Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.
The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record.
Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.
Outgoing Interior chief says Arctic oil leases will survive Biden By Jennifer A. Dlouhy on 1/20/2021
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt
(Bloomberg) Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said he expects both political and legal constraints to get in the way of President-elect Joe Bidenâs pledges to block new oil and gas permitting on federal land.
âYou can write a lot of executive orders, but an executive order doesnât get you past go,â Bernhardt said in an interview with Bloomberg News on his last full day leading the Interior Department. âThey still have to run through the gauntlet of the law.â
During Bernhardtâs tenure, the Interior Department moved to open up more public lands for energy development by reviving a stalled coal leasing program and selling drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.