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Climate Change Returns to White House Agenda with Biden Executive Order

Steve Baragona

   President Joe Biden immediately began to reverse the Trump
   administration's policies on climate change with one of 17 executive
   orders signed Wednesday after his inauguration.

   That's in addition to the move to rejoin the Paris agreement to limit
   climate-changing greenhouse gases.

   After four years of federal disinterest in the issue, the order calls
   on all federal agencies "to immediately commence work to confront the
   climate crisis."

   Among its dictates is the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, a
   project that perhaps more than any other has become a symbol of the
   rise and fall and rise of climate policy over the past three
   administrations.

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