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New executive order mandates prioritizing climate change considerations throughout entire federal government. Enrique Saenz January 29, 2021
President Joe Biden has signed executive orders drawing the entire federal government into the fight against climate change.
The executive orders and directives task the government with taking on the climate crisis as a national security issue, with each level of government working to reduce climate change impacts while investing in measures that will encourage the establishment of a clean energy economy.
Defense installations, federal buildings and vehicles, power plants and other initiatives in Indiana could be affected by the new orders.
“In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can’t wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes. We feel it. We know it in our bones, and it’s time to act,” Biden said during a press conference announcing the executive orders.
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Representative Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18) voiced his support for the Biden Administration’s actions to combat the threat of climate change, invest in green infrastructure development, and create jobs.
“We only have one chance to protect our planet from climate change, and the time to act is now. These are commonsense, science-backed steps we can take to restore our global leadership in this fight and create jobs here at home,” said
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. “I look forward to working with a new White House that understands how consequential this threat is to our environment, our economy, and our future.”
On January 27, 2021, US President Joe Biden signed a series of Executive Orders that aim to “confront the existential threat of climate change” in the United States, overseas and.
Biden executive order seeks to involve ag in battling climate change
“When we think of renewable energy … we see farmers making American agriculture first in the world to achieve net zero emissions and gaining new sources of income in the process,” President Joe Biden said Wednesday at the White House.
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Addressing climate change is the focus of one of the Biden administration’s latest executive orders, which pauses new oil and gas leasing on public lands or offshore waters, seeks to more than double the amount of land conserved in the United States, and looks to involve the agriculture sector in the federal government’s efforts.