Ask a Scientist: What Should the Biden Administration and Congress Do to Address the Climate Crisis? Elliott Negin, senior writer | January 14, 2021, 10:30 am EDT This post is a part of a series on What a difference an election makes. Thanks to the Biden-Harris victory in November, the next administration is poised to make a 180-degree turn to again address the climate crisis. President Trump famously called climate change a “hoax,” appointed fossil fuel industry lobbyists to key positions in his administration, rolled back the Obama-era rule that would have curbed power plant carbon emissions, and weakened Obama-era limits on vehicle carbon emissions. Just a day after last fall’s election, he pulled the United States out of the international Paris climate agreement.