Climate crisis among immediate priorities for Biden

January 19, 2021
Incoming White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain says President Biden will take immediate executive action to address the “existential threat” of climate change along with other steps to counter a confluence of national crises including the pandemic and the resulting economic downturn. “We face four overlapping and compounding crises: the COVID-19 crisis, the resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, and a racial equity crisis,” Klain wrote in a Jan. 16 memo laying out the new administration’s agenda for its...


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