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Excellent post. I’d like to add to the comparison of presidential candidates.
Trump repealed 112 climate regulations in one term, setting us back over a decade of progress, and left The Paris Agreement.
Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, revoked the Keystone Pipeline permit, created a 13 million acre federal petroleum reserve for Alaskan wildlife, greatly increased oil site lease cost, signed $7B in solar subsidies, and enacted the Inflation Reduction act to support clean energy.
There's a much more extensive list of what Biden has done here — but you can't get it outside the paywall because the last was started before the Washington Post started doing gift links.
Wow. I was going to copy and paste them into my comment, but then I saw there were 98 pages of accomplishments. Well done!
Here’s a link to get around the paywall: https://archive.is/2024.05.20-232047/https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/climate-environment/biden-climate-environment-actions/
Unfortunately you lose all the interactive features on the archived copy, so you can't see any of the details, just numerical summaries.