Source: Benjamin J. Hulac, ROLL CALL, 1/20/21


After he is sworn in Wednesday, President-elect Joe Biden will set the U.S. on track to rejoin the 2015 Paris climate accords and revoke the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline, early steps in the process of restoring environmental protections rolled back by the Trump administration. Biden will also direct federal agencies to review more than 100 federal environmental regulations and agency decisions by the Trump administration, according to summaries from Biden’s transition team.

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