What Biden will do in his first week to unravel Trump’s climate damage

Former US president Donald Trump’s long war against policies to benefit the climate ends today, after its last few battles ended in defeat for his administration. Last week, the administration suddenly bailed on another plan to relax carbon capture requirements for new coal plants. Now, starting the afternoon of Jan. 20, incoming US president Joe Biden is planning to waste no time in shooting off a rapid-fire round of executive orders and directives aimed at crumbling the remains of his predecessor’s climate agenda, according to a statement released Wednesday morning by the new administration.