Even before Election Day, environmental groups were suggesting ways that the Biden administration could protect the president’s climate agenda from an incoming president who has vowed to increase fossil fuel production and repeal major climate initiatives.
Since then, Biden has taken many of those steps — backing a proposal to curtail public financing for oil and gas projects around the globe, limiting oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, protecting the endangered sage grouse and announcing tough new regulations banning or restricting the use of the chemicals trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene, which are linked to cancers and other severe health problems.
