Biden can repair Trump's legacy of environmental destruction. Here's where things stand

The new president is focusing on seven key areas in which Trump allowed polluters to make America hotter and dirtierFaced with an unfolding climate crisis that is fueling more powerful storms, enormous wildfires and scorching heatwaves in the US, Donald Trump unapologetically set about dismantling policies to cut planet-heating emissions, mocked or ignored climate science, and threw open vast tracts of American land and water to fossil fuel development.The systematic reversals in environmental protections pose a challenge to Joe Biden, Trump's successor as US president, who has called climate change the "existential threat of our time". Biden has set about the task of undoing Trump's legacy with hyperactive zeal, through a flurry of executive actions. In all, about 100 Trump-era environmental policies are being targeted, although some may take several years to reverse. Here's how Biden is doing it. Continue reading...