ENERGY BRIEFING: What to Know About Biden’s Climate Policies

President Joe Biden depicted his climate policies yesterday as an employment plan for the U.S., arguing that fighting warming global temperatures and carbon pollution by improving infrastructure and transportation technology will add millions of jobs.

In the short-term, however, the president took a series of actions regarded as adversarial by the fossil fuels industry, among them halting the issuance of new oil and natural gas drilling leases on federal lands. His administration seeks to leverage federal regulations and purchasing power to fight climate change. Shifting to cleaner methods of transportation and power generation while reinforcing U.S. property and infrastructure against ...