Community Energy Center

Any doubt that the Biden Administration plans to slowly regulate fossil fuels out of existence vanished this week. First came the Keystone XL pipeline kill, but perhaps more significant is the 60-day freeze on new leases on federal lands and bureaucratic permitting. The pause could soon become a long-term ban.

Federal lands account for about 22% of U.S. oil production, 12% of natural gas and 40% of coal. When the Obama Administration slowed oil and gas permitting on federal land, drilling and exploration shifted to private land. The Biden Administration may shut that down too.

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President Joe Biden, yes it’s official as of this writing, will immediately take aim at more than 100 Trump-era actions weakening climate and environmental regulations in his first step toward implementing his aggressive climate agenda.

We have a few questions on how Biden proceeds in the coming days and weeks.

*How will Biden proceed on submitting an updated emissions-cutting commitment for the Paris Agreement to the U.N.? Will he take his time to submit a more aggressive NDC (nationally determined commitment) for 2030, carefully balancing ambition vs. practicality, or offer something bold quickly?

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America’s energy policy is getting an extreme makeover.

President Joe Biden is wasting no time undoing the Trump administration’s efforts to prop up fossil fuels and deny the existence of a climate crisis.On his first day in the White House, Biden took a series of executive actions that put an exclamation point on his commitment to address climate change.

Biden immediately moved to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change, revoke a permit that former President Donald Trump granted to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline and place a temporary moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic.

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