White House Climate Executive Order

January 29, 2021

White House Climate Executive Order

January 29, 2021

Please find attached below links to President Biden's "Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad" as well as the Fact Sheet on the EOs.


Takeaways:

  • Formal Establishment of the White House Office of Domestic Policy -- led by Gina McCarthy and Ali Zaidi -- these two will be guiding the Admin-wide efforts on climate and clean energy.
  • Formerly layering in climate within the government's foreign policy mission top to bottom.
  • Establishment of a White House Climate Task Force.
  • Push to leverage the federal government's buying power (procurement) on zero-emission technologies.
  • Provides a little more specificity on how the Administration views its environmental justice mission.

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