Joe Biden To Rejoin Paris Agreement
Newly elected president Joe Biden plans to rejoin Paris agreement in his first day in office. The new president will take the resonant step of bringing the US back into the Paris climate accords. President Biden also intends to block key stone pipeline.
“Day one, Biden will rejoin Paris, regulate methane emissions and continue taking many other aggressive executive climate actions in the opening days and weeks of his presidency,” said Paul Bledsoe, who was a climate adviser to Bill Clinton’s White House, now with the Progressive Policy Institute.
Bledsoe said Biden’s nominees to tackle the climate crisis, spearheaded by the former secretary of state John Kerry, who will act as a climate “envoy” to the world, is “by far the most experienced, high-level climate team US history. They intend to hit the ground running.”
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