‘It’s time to act’: Biden Rolls Out New Executive Actions on Climate Change
Washington — President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a series of executive actions aimed at combating climate change, building on unilateral action the president took his first day in the office and heightening the federal government’s focus on the issue, which took a back seat under former President Donald Trump’s administration.
Joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, the special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry and national climate adviser Gina McCarthy, Mr. Biden said his actions will “supercharge our administration’s ambitious plan to confront the existential threat of climate change.”
“It’s about coming to the moment to deal with this maximum threat that is now facing us, climate change, with a greater sense of urgency,” he said in remarks at the White House. “In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis and we can’t wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones.”
