Executive Order 13990Active

Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis

Joe Biden

January 20, 2021

86 FR 7037

Summary

Directed agencies to review and reverse Trump-era environmental rollbacks, reestablished the social cost of carbon for regulatory analysis, and recommitted to the Paris Climate Agreement.

Topics

environmentclimate changepublic healthParis Agreement

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