Since President Biden came into office, perhaps the most significant thing he’s done in his ambitious attempt to slow climate change has been — I can’t believe this needs to be said — to trust in science.
It does need to be said though, after the devastation that former President Trump wrought on environmental regulations and previously pristine land and water, and his endangerment of animals, partly based on his refusal to believe in global warming, and partly because of his pandering to the fossil fuel and other polluting industries.In his first 100 days, Biden went hard at fixing the environment in what seemed like a sprint.
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030, and signed countless executive orders that reestablished a focus on emissions and clean water regulations that Trump had decimated. “The Biden administration has hit the ground running,” Aaron Weiss, deputy director at the nonpartisan conservation group