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Presidential Executive Order 13990 (Joe Biden, 2021)

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Executive Order 13990: Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis is a presidentialexecutive order issued byPresidentJoe Biden (D) on January 20, 2021, that aims "to improve public health and protect our environment," according to the order. E.O. 13990 featured the following agency directives:[1]

  • The order required all agency heads to review any agency activity under the Trump administration that would be considered to be inconsistent with the Biden administration's environmental policies and consider suspending, revising, or rescinding those actions.
  • The order required the secretary of the interior, in consultation with other government actors, to consider whether it would be appropriate to restore the boundaries and conditions of Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to those that existed under the Obama administration.
  • The order required the secretary of the interior to place a temporary moratorium on the federal oil and gas leasing program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and review the program for environmental impacts.
  • The order established an Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases tasked with developing andpromulgating social costs of carbon, nitrous oxide, and methane for agencies to apply during cost-benefit analysis.
  • The order revoked the March 2019 presidential permit for the construction and operation of the Keystone XL pipeline.
  • The order revoked a series of executive orders, presidential memoranda, and draft agency guidance concerning environmental policy issued during the Trump administration, includingExecutive Order 13783, which established the Trump administration's policy for energy regulation.

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