Climate Change: A Biden vs Trump scorecard
By Oliver Milman, Alvin Chang | February 7, 2021
bright protest banner about fossil fuels A “Fossil Free Cantastoria,†or series of big storytelling paintings on cloth—typically accompanied by a sung narration. Image courtesy of David Solnit/Paperhand Puppet Intervention/Art.350.org
Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Faced with an unfolding climate crisis that is fueling more powerful storms, enormous wildfires, and scorching heatwaves in the United States, Donald Trump unapologetically set about dismantling policies to cut planet-heating emissions, mocked or ignored climate science, and threw open vast tracts of American land and water to fossil fuel development.
The systematic reversals in environmental protections pose a challenge to Joe Biden, Trump’s successor as US president, who has called climate change the “existential threat of our time.†Biden has set about the task of undoing Trump’s legacy with hyperactive zeal, through a flurry of executive actions. In all, about 100 Trump-era environmental policies are being targeted, although some may take several years to reverse. Here’s how Biden is doing it.
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