Throughout the world, fossil fuels are the number one resource to provide energy. Oil, coal, and natural gas are used in a number of daily activities that provide us with a modern lifestyle. So many of our mundane everyday tasks release pounds of carbon, particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere, thus causing a number of problems that affect humans, animals, and our earth. The combustion of fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide which adds to the greenhouse effect and increases global warming as well as increases the acidification of the ocean. Overall, the disadvantages of fossil fuels have come to outweigh the benefits, therefore, President Biden and his administration have made it one of their primary goals to augment policy implementation that will reduce the use of fossil fuels in hopes to help the environment and lessen the pollutants that harm our home. 

On the 27th of January, President Biden used his executive powers to tackle the climate crisis nationally and globally, producing union jobs and devising a plan for a clean energy future, building environmentally sustainable infrastructure, restoring scientific policy-making integrity within the federal government, and reinstating the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. With Donald Trump as America’s previous president, many of Barack Obama’s efforts to reduce climate change were thwarted. As a result, on President Biden’s first day in office, he rejoined the Paris Agreement –– which unites a number of countries all over the world to limit global warming temperatures from rising above 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C –– in order to strengthen the United States’ ability to deal with the impacts of climate change. Biden also immediately reviewed dangerous rollbacks of standards that protect our air, water, and communities.

President Biden has only been in office for a short amount of time yet his ambitious goals to reduce climate change have established the possibility that the U.S. and possibly the world can meet the demands of global warming. He encourages American workers and corporations to lean towards renewable and clean energy that accomplishes a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035 and places the United States on an immutable path to a net-zero economy by 2050. President Biden hopes to conserve our natural/nonrenewable resources and move towards a future defined by clean energy, all while creating jobs and bringing justice for those who have been subjected to environmental harm.