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To: Biden Administration
Rollback Trump's Climate Catastrophe!
We want Biden to specifically commit to putting these executive orders in place in the first 100 days. Each of these items was directly affected by a Trump executive order.
1. Prohibit the Keystone XL Pipeline and all further fossil fuel pipeline construction in the United States.
2. Rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement.
3. Reinstate water pollution regulations for fracking on federal and Indian lands.
4. Expand the ability of individuals and communities to challenge E.P.A.-issued pollution permits.
5. Reinstate Obama-era fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards for passenger cars and light trucks.
6. Reinstate the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which would have set strict limits on carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants.
7. Reinstate a Clinton-era rule designed to limit toxic emissions from major industrial polluters.
8. Reinstate guidance directing federal agencies to include greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews.
9. Reinstate an Obama executive order that set a goal of cutting the federal government’s greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent over 10 years.
10. Strengthen standards for carbon dioxide emissions from new, modified and reconstructed coal power plants that required them to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions.
11. Reinstate an Obama-era guidance that ended U.S. government financing for new coal plants overseas except in rare circumstances.
Why is this important?
The Climate Justice Committee calls on Biden to turn back Trump's Executive Orders that exacerbate climate change and environmental damage to the world. We call on Biden to sign Executive Orders overturning the damage done by Trump. These are by no means the only Executive Orders that need to go, but this would be a good start for Biden to show the climate justice movement that he takes climate change seriously. To do so requires nothing more than the signing of his pen, which is all it took for Trump to enact them in the first place.
We know that is a drop in the bucket for what needs to be done to fight climate change and environmental destruction, so we hope you join the Climate Justice Committee in demanding these Executive Orders are rolled back, and also for real and meaningful action to save our planet.
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