President Biden: We can t wait any longer to address climate crisis Share Updated: 4:59 AM PST Jan 28, 2021 By MATTHEW DALY and ELLEN KNICKMEYER
President Biden: We can t wait any longer to address climate crisis Share Updated: 4:59 AM PST Jan 28, 2021
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Show Transcript Good afternoon, everybody. I know the press has just had a long, uh, session with the team here about what we re talking about today and this afternoon. And let me just start by saying I can t tell you how much I appreciate the three people standing next to me here for what they ve agreed to do to help, particularly my best buddy, John Kerry. Asking a former secretary of state to come back and do this has been a as I know, there s a big ask on the part of myself. I was gonna I was gonna blame common for it as well, but for both of us and, uh, but, uh, John s been deeply involved. The sector has been deeply involved in climate issues as a senator and one of
Climate day is also jobs day, Biden says as he issues sweeping new orders on fuel, power and more Christopher Wilson
President Biden on Wednesday signed additional executive orders addressing the climate crisis, adding to those he signed on his first full day in office, saying “we can’t wait any longer” for action on what his predecessor famously dismissed as a hoax.
“We’ve already waited too long,” Biden said at the signing ceremony in the White House. “We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones and it’s time to act.”
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Oil Change International response to Biden climate announcements on oil and gas leases, fossil fuel subsidies
Today, President Joe Biden is expected to sign executive orders advancing a broad range of actions to confront the climate crisis, including directing the Interior Department to enact a temporary pause on new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters.
Biden is also expected to direct federal agencies to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies as consistent with applicable law, instruct all agencies to prioritize environmental justice, establish the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, and announce the date of a new international climate summit on April 22, among other actions.
Former Obama economic adviser Jason Furman and former CBO director Doug Holtz-Eakin provide insight.
President Biden on Wednesday signed executive orders on climate change as he vowed to put the issue at the center of U.S. national security and domestic and foreign policy.
At a White House ceremony, Biden said the orders would supercharge his administration’s plan for dealing with climate change. Today is climate day at the White House, which means today is jobs day at the White House, Biden said, adding that the focus of the administration is American products, the health of our families, cleaner water and cleaner air.