{"id":396474,"date":"2021-01-21T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T03:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396474"},"modified":"2021-01-21T09:31:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:01:33","slug":"biden-announces-return-to-paris-climate-accord-curbs-on-us-oil-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/biden-announces-return-to-paris-climate-accord-curbs-on-us-oil-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden announces return to Paris climate accord, curbs on US oil industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced America&#8217;s return to the international Paris Agreement to fight climate change, the centerpiece of a raft of day-one executive orders aimed at restoring U.S. leadership in combating global warming. <\/p>\n<p>The announcements also included a sweeping order to review all of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s actions weakening climate change protections, the revocation of a vital permit for TC Energy&#8217;s Keystone XL oil pipeline project from Canada, and a moratorium on oil and gas leasing activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that Trump&#8217;s administration had recently opened to development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced America&#8217;s return to the international Paris Agreement to fight climate change, the centerpiece of a raft of day-one executive orders aimed at restoring U.S. leadership in combating global warming. The announcements also included a sweeping order to review all of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s actions weakening climate change protections, the revocation of a vital permit for TC Energy&#8217;s Keystone XL oil pipeline project from Canada, and a moratorium on oil and gas leasing activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that Trump&#8217;s administration had recently opened to development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}