Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway is applauding a series of executive orders signed by President Joe Biden Wednesday aimed at addressing climate change.
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President Joe Biden greets Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry as he arrives to speak on climate change before signing executive orders on Jan. 27, 2021. Executive orders do call for cooperation with stakeholders including farmers.
In comments made Wednesday, President Joe Biden says his climate team plans to deal with the issue of climate change with a “greater sense of urgency” as the nation has already “waited too long to deal with this climate crisis.” He says this is why he signed the executive order to “supercharge our administration’s ambitious plan to confront the existential threat of climate change.”
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Hours ago, 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 throughout the federal government while emphasizing job creation and tackling racial and environmental inequity. These order federal agencies to procure carbon-free energy, realign their fleet with electric vehicles, foster the commercialization of clean energy technologies, accelerate clean energy generation and transmission projects and ensure that disadvantaged communities get a fair share of the ensuing economic and environmental benefits. In signing these Executive Orders, President Biden has directed his administration to: