![]() Protecting land that was opened up to drillingģ) Strengthening rules on air quality and carbon emissions The Keystone pipeline has been blocked, with other similar projects now looking highly uncertain. The new administration has set a goal of protecting 30 percent of America’s land and oceans by 2030 and has a plan to create a “civilian climate corps” that would work to restore degraded landscapes and waterways. What Biden can do: Biden has halted oil and gas leasing on public lands, opening up a pathway for a total ban, and is set to reverse the shrinking of the protected national monuments. He also shrank two national monuments in Utah: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. The former president opened up almost all of the federally managed land and ocean for oil and gas drilling-including, for the first time, Arctic waters. What Trump did: Trump immediately approved the Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access pipeline, two contentious projects moving vast amounts of oil that were cheered by industry but enraged various farming, climate, and Native American groups. Protecting endangered animals and their habitatsĢ) Protecting land that was opened up to drilling Other planned reforms should aid species facing what scientists say is the Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, such as clean water rules that safeguard streams and wetlands, environmental reviews of potentially destructive projects and the halting of fossil fuel development in places such as the Arctic national wildlife refuge, a vital, pristine wilderness for birds, caribou and other creatures. What Biden is doing: Biden is reviewing, and will probably reverse, Trump’s wildlife rollbacks, such as those involving the protection of migratory birds and the application of endangered species rules. Rules banning the killing of migratory birds were loosened, companies were allowed to “incidentally” kill animals as they went about drilling, and creatures suffering large population declines, such as the monarch butterfly, were denied endangered species listing. ![]() ![]() What Trump did: In an attempt to offer up more area for oil and gas drilling, which the industry said would be a boon for jobs, the Trump administration weakened key interpretations of the Endangered Species Act, making it harder to protect endangered species and their habitats. 1) Protecting endangered animals and their habitats.
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