President Biden signed an executive order focused on addressing climate change yesterday. The sweeping order calls for a pause on oil and gas leasing on federal lands, establishes a National Climate Task Force, and includes several other measures focused on wind energy, land conservation, electric federal vehicles, and fossil fuel subsidies (source).
Extra: Biden also signed an order re-establishing the “Council of Advisors on Science and Technology” and issued a memo calling “evidence-based policymaking” across the federal government.
More context: Here’s a fact sheet summarizing each of yesterday’s actions.
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