April 29, 2021
- President Biden has used his first one hundred days in office to deliver on his promises to prioritize jobs, environmental justice, clean energy investments, and climate solutions. His accomplishments will help tackle the climate crisis and accelerate our transition to a just clean energy economy.
- President Biden and his Climate Cabinet have achieved the following in the first 100 days in office:
- Recommitted the U.S. to the Paris Climate Agreement
- Ordered federal agencies to review and roll back over 100 major environmental rollbacks from the previous administration to protect our air, water, and communities
- Established the most climate-ambitious administration in history
- Promised to restore science-based decision making to public policy
- Halted all environmental rollbacks by the previous administration that had not yet gone into effect
- Recognized climate change is real on the White House website
- Revoked a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline
- Ordered the climate crisis to be a central consideration in all foriegn and national security decision-making
- Established the first-ever Office of Domestic Climate Policy in the White House to coordinate and implement the President’s climate agenda
- Paused all new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters and required the federal government to consider the climate crisis in its decision-making process
- Introduced the Build Back Better plan to rescue, recover, and rebuild the country through creating good-paying, union jobs and spurring clean energy technology and investments
- Ordered each federal agency to develop a plan “to increase the resilience of its facilities and operations to the impacts of climate change”
- Committed to make environmental justice a part of the mission of every federal agency
- Established an Interagency Working Group to coordinate investments and other efforts to assist coal, oil and natural gas, and power plant communities
- Created the Justice40 Initiative to deliver 40 percent of the overall benefits from federal investments to support disadvantaged communities and address historic environmental injustices
- Released the American Jobs Plan to deliver relief to families, create millions of good-paying jobs, invest in science and climate research, and prioritize climate and clean infrastructure investments to support disadvantaged communities
- Proposed $14 billion across federal agencies on initiatives to fight the climate crisis in the 2022 budget
- Announced the country’s commitment to reducing climate pollution by 50 to 52 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, setting the stage for economic growth and opportunity through bold domestic climate action
- Hosted the Leaders Summit on Climate with 40 world leaders to ensure our commitment to tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad
- Helped to restore states’ authority to adopt tougher tailpipe pollution standards and moved to grant California permission to set more stringent climate requirements for cars and SUVs
