Over the weekend, major news outlets announced that former Vice
President Joe Biden will be the next president of the United
States. Biden and his running mate, Vice President-elect Kamala
Harris, pledged throughout the campaign to make dramatic changes
from the policies pursued by President Donald Trump. And there is
perhaps no issue on which Biden and Trump differ more sharply than
climate change policy. A Biden-Harris administration will result in
significant changes to the federal government's approach to
climate change.
The urgency of addressing climate change was at the core of
Biden's platform. As a result, we can expect to see climate
change permeate all aspects of a Biden Administration's
policies – from environmental policy, to public lands
management, to tax and economic policy, to federal enforcement of environmental laws. On
the campaign trail, Biden announced an ambitious climate change
plan (“Climate Plan”) that aims to achieve
carbon-pollution free
