Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis
Federal Agencies Ordered to Reverse Rollbacks and Tackle Climate Crisis
What it does
Agencies must immediately review agency actions from January 20, 2017 to January 20, 2021 and consider suspending, revising, or rescinding inconsistent actions.
Real-world impact
- Prompts agencies to undo or change environmental rollbacks from the prior four years.
- Revokes the Presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
- Places a temporary moratorium and new review on Arctic Coastal Plain leasing.
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Summary
This order directs federal agencies to immediately review regulations, guidance, and policies issued between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021 and to consider suspending, revising, or rescinding those that conflict with its environmental and public-health goals.
It also restores prior protections for Arctic and other areas, pauses the Arctic Coastal Plain leasing program while its environmental review is redone, revokes the Keystone XL permit, orders reviews of certain national monuments, and creates a working group to set values for the social cost of greenhouse gases.
Questions, answered
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