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The order would also ban new fossil fuel infrastructure, declaring such projects “incompatible with limiting warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius,” the more ambitious target of the Paris climate accord. Other, non-fossil fuel projects’ impacts on the climate crisis must also be taken into consideration when federal approval is required.<\/p>\n
Biden’s executive actions must further include an immediate ban on fracking on public lands. He must also kick-start an environmental review of the extraction process that ends with a full ban, unless it’s proven that damage from fracking has been eliminated, and that fracking is compatible with achieving the 1.5 degrees of warming threshold and slashing “greenhouse emissions by 70% by 2030 and to near zero by 2040.”<\/p>\n
“He can’t lose unless he goes back to business as usual.”
\u2014Joe Uehlein, Labor Network for Sustainability<\/span>In addition to reinstating the ban on crude oil exports, the order calls for Biden to tap the Defense Production Act to “mobilize the domestic production of clean and renewable energy under project labor agreements to defend the country against the climate emergency while creating millions of family-sustaining jobs and spurring the nation’s clean energy export market.”<\/p>\nAlongside that action, the Pentagon must divert funds toward “construction of clean and renewable energy, battery storage, and smart grid infrastructure projects on military and government-owned properties, including electric vehicle charging stations at every U.S. Post Office.”<\/p>\n
Climate solutions must also be funded, the order says, which necessitates no federal funding of fossil fuel projects.<\/p>\n
A Just Transition Council, made up of a broad range of stakeholders, would also be established under the order. That body would support workers and communities on the front lines of the fossil fuel industry. And to more fully address environmental justice, the order would have the federal government actively mitigate environmental harms to communities and fairly address climate refugees.<\/p>\n
Beyond merely rejoining the Paris agreement, the order calls for a new nationally determined contribution (NDC) of greenhouse gas emissions that reflects a slashing of at least 70% below 2005 levels by 2030, and for financial backing of developing countries’ efforts to reduce their planet-warming emissions.<\/p>\n
Joe Uehlein, founding president of the Labor Network for Sustainability, called the order “a jobs plan as much as a climate plan.”<\/p>\n
“Biden can address the climate emergency and create thousands of good-paying union jobs in the process,” said Uehlein. “He can’t lose unless he goes back to business as usual.”<\/p>\n\n
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