Author: ABBY SMITH Washington Examiner

Four Senate Democrats who once backed the controversial Keystone XL pipeline have switched their position amid changing climate politics. On his first day in office, President Biden canceled a permit for the 2,000-mile oil pipeline that would have run from Alberta in western Canada through to Texas. The move, part of a day-one climate change…

President Biden directed agencies to purchase more carbon-free power and electric cars in a sweeping executive order Wednesday meant to have the government weigh climate change in nearly everything it does. The order also pauses new oil and gas leasing on federal lands, delivering on a campaign promise but creating immediate and fierce tensions with the oil…

Hours after he is inaugurated, President-elect Joe Biden will take aim at more than 100 Trump-era actions weakening climate and environmental regulations in his first step toward implementing his aggressive climate agenda. Biden will sign an executive order later Wednesday that his transition team said “takes critical first steps to address the climate crisis,” while…

President-elect Joe Biden is promising to start implementing on day one the most aggressive policies to curb emissions of any administration. His administration is poised to get started quickly. Biden is bringing in a team of climate policymaking veterans, former Obama Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy and former Secretary of State John Kerry, to run…

Electric vehicle advocates are ramping up efforts to lobby Republicans in the new Congress, hoping to push through policies such as expanded tax incentives that have long been held up by partisan politics. One of the industry’s main blockades is about to be removed: The Trump White House had vigorously opposed climate policies that would…