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Clean Air Issues Take a Top Spot in Biden’s Agency Priorities

  • Agencies to review clean air, carbon rollbacks
  • Prioritizes rules on cost-benefit, scientific research

    

Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg
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President Joe Biden teed up a slew of clean air and carbon issues as top environmental priorities for his administration in a new executive order signed this week.

Biden on Jan. 21 directed agencies to examine dozens of Trump-era rules, including carbon emissions, clean air rollbacks, and Clean Air Act rules on science and costs.