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Biden Signs Sweeping Orders to Tackle Climate Change and Rollback Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy

The new president moved immediately to review more than 100 Trump administration actions and restore the protection of federal lands and the regulation of greenhouse gases.

By Sabrina Shankman, Dan Gearino, David Hasemyer, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna

President Joe Biden takes the oath of office during the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to sign a series of executive orders, including rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden became the 46th president of the United States earlier today during the ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The US Rejoins the Paris Agreement, but Rebuilding Credibility on Climate Action Will Take Time

By Bob Berwyn

Sea ice is seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft off the northwest coast on March 30, 2017 above Greenland. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

How the Trump Administration’s Climate Denial Left Its Mark on The Arctic Council

By Sabrina Shankman

German Chancellor Angela Merkel throws her voting card into the ballot box during passage of sweeping climate legislation in December 2019.

The Enigmatic ‘Climate Chancellor’ Pulls Off a Grand Finale

By Dan Gearino

Protesters gather in Paris during the COP 21 climate negotiations in December 2015.

Five Years After Paris, Where Are We Now? Facing Urgent Choices

By Bob Berwyn

Secretary General António Guterres speaks during a press conference at the United Nations in New York City on Nov. 20, 2020. Credit: EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images

United Nations Chief Warns of a ‘Moment of Truth for People and Planet’

By Bob Berwyn

The sun rises over an oil field over the Monterey Shale formation where gas and oil is extracted using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on March 24, 2014 near Lost Hills, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

UN Report: Despite Falling Energy Demand, Governments Set on Increasing Fossil Fuel Production

By Nicholas Kusnetz

As Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry Will Be No Stranger to International Climate Negotiations

By Phil McKenna

A voter walks toward a polling location on election day in Austin, Texas on Nov. 3, 2020. Credit: Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Trends: A Climate Win in Austin, the Demise of Butterflies and the Threat of Food Pollution

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Demonstrators hold banners during a rally near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Dec. 12, 2015 on the sidelines of the COP21, the UN conference on global warming. Credit: Francois Guillot/AFP via Getty Images

No Matter Who Wins, the US Exits the Paris Climate Accord the Day After the Election

By Bob Berwyn

Protesters gather outside the U.S. embassy in Vienna in June. Credit: Martin Juen/SEPA Media /Getty Images

Anxiety Mounts Abroad About Climate Leadership and the Volatile U.S. Election

By Bob Berwyn

Linggas tanks have begun capturing and purifying waste nitrous oxide gas from the Henan Shenma Nylon Chemical Company in central China. Credit: Geng Xue, Linggas

A Chinese Chemical Company Captures and Reuses 6,000 Tons of a Super-Polluting Greenhouse Gas

By Phil McKenna, Lili Pike

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence greet delegates on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Charlotte Convention Center on Aug. 24, 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Credit: David T. Foster III-Pool/Getty Images

A Climate Change Skeptic, Mike Pence Brought to the Vice Presidency Deep Ties to the Koch Brothers

By Marianne Lavelle

Vice President Joe Biden reaches to shake hands with Chinese president Xi Jinping, as President Barack Obama stands nearby during arrival ceremony at the White House September 25, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Will China and the US Become Climate Partners Again?

By Lili Pike

COP’s Postponement Until 2021 Gives World Leaders Time to Respond to U.S. Election

By Georgina Gustin

Ring-tailed lemurs are on IUCN's endangered species list. Credit: Mathias Appel/Flickr

UN Proposes Protecting 30% of Earth to Slow Extinctions and Climate Change

By Phil McKenna

Emissions on the New Jersey Turnpike. Credit: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images

U.S. Emissions Dropped in 2019: Here's Why in 6 Charts

By Nicholas Kusnetz

UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutierres speaks at COP25. Credit: Eduardo Parra/Europa Press via Getty Images

UN Climate Talks Stymied by Carbon Markets' 'Ghost from the Past'

By LESLIE HOOK, FINANCIAL TIMES

Homes in El Segundo, California, sit blocks from the Chevron refinery. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A Pollution and Climate Justice Question at COP25: What Role Should Carbon Markets Play?

By Marianne Lavelle

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