‘We Needed More Time’: As Biden Leaves Office, His Climate Legacy Remains Incomplete

Inside Climate News · By Marianne Lavelle · last updated January 19, 2025 – 12:04 AM

Allies say the president’s clean energy and environmental justice achievements will last. But he leaves behind no solution for the nation’s fossil fuel reliance.

By Marianne Lavelle

In his four years in office, President Joe Biden dedicated more federal attention to climate action than any previous president, breaking a decades-long impasse, and worked to ensure vulnerable people and places benefitted from that action.

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