<em>The Weekly Planet: </em>How to Think About President Biden’s Big Climate Plans
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Tomorrow, pending calamity or misfortune, Joe Biden will take the oath of office and become president of the United States. In that moment, the United States’ approach to climate change will invert. Not least because Biden may finish his speech, walk inside the Capitol, and sign a letter committing the U.S. to rejoining the Paris Agreement.
Yet even if that “day one” promise isn’t kept until January 21, Biden’s inauguration will end an ugly period. Starting tomorrow, the highest levels of trying to make climate change worse. The Trump administration has progressed from enabling construction of fossil-fuel infrastructure to . It has smuggled with the consequence of making Americans pay more at the pump; its supposedly marquee climate policy carbon pollution.In the dozen or so weeks since the election, it has undertaken , finalizing more than a dozen new rules. One , borrowed from , restricts the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to consider medical studies in its rulemaking.
