Rebuilding climate regulation: What Biden probably will (and will not) accomplish
By Daniel J. Metzger | November 7, 2020
In a speech in September Joe Biden described the “the undeniable, accelerating, and punishing reality of climate change.†He has promised that his administration will take on the problem. To get started, a Biden administration will have to undo many of President Trump’s deregulatory efforts over the past four years.
As promised, when Trump took office he quickly got to work aggressively dismantling Obama-era climate regulation. Over the past four years his administration has taken a dizzying spectrum of actions, large and small, to put business ahead of the environment.
President-elect Biden will undoubtedly begin reversing some of these actions as soon as he takes office. Some of Trump’s damage can be undone right away, but getting climate action fully back on track will take years.
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