WASHINGTON – (This livestream has now ended. Click here to read the latest on President Joe Biden’s climate plan.)
President Joe Biden is expected to deliver remarks on his agenda addressing climate change on Wednesday afternoon.
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The president is also expected to sign executive actions dealing with climate change, jobs and scientific integrity. Vice President Kamala Harris is also expected to be in attendance.
Biden’s remarks at 12:30 p.m. will be livestreamed in this article, but delays are possible. If there is not a livesteam available, check back at a later time.
In what would be the most ambitious U.S. effort ever to stave off the worst effects of climate change, President Joe Biden is aiming to cut oil, gas and coal emissions and double energy production from offshore wind turbines through executive orders.
The orders awaiting his signature target federal subsidies for oil and other fossil fuels and halt new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters. They also intend to conserve 30 percent of the country’s lands and ocean waters in the next 10 years and move to an all-electric federal vehicle fleet.
Biden has set a goal of eliminating pollution from fossil fuel in the power sector by 2035 and from the U.S. economy overall by 2050, speeding what is already a market-driven growth of solar and wind energy and lessening the country’s dependence on oil and gas. The ambitious plan is aimed at slowing human-caused global warming that is magnifying extreme weather events such as deadly wildfires in the West and drenching rains and hurricanes in the East.