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Washington Post: Tracking Biden’s environmental actions

Washington Post: Tracking Biden’s environmental actions

Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis and John Muyskens tracking Biden’s environmental, climate, and environmental health actions:

President Biden has placed climate change squarely at the center of his White House agenda, using his first hours in office to rejoin the Paris climate accord and begin overturning more than 100 environmental actions taken by the Trump administration.

The order also makes environmental justice a priority across the government, establishing an interagency council in the White House and standing up new offices in both the Health and Human Services and Justice departments.

Those initial moves are the first in what promises to be a much longer — and more arduous — effort to unwind the Trump administration’s sweeping environmental and energy policies, which were marked by aggressive deregulation, prioritizing the fossil fuels industry and sidelining efforts to combat climate change or protect imperiled animals.

The Post sorts the policies into the following bins: Air pollution and greenhouse gases, Chemical safety, Drilling and extraction, Infrastructure and permitting, Accountability, Water pollution, and Wildlife. For each category, they list “New” policies put into place by the Biden administration and those that are “Easy to overturn” (by executive order, for example), “Medium” (reversible by rewriting regulation or court rule), and “Difficult” (lengthy regulatory process, Congress, or court ruling).

Worth a look. A really useful resource.

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