Biden: 'Can't wait any longer' on climate crisis

In the most ambitious U.S. effort to stave off the worst effects of climate change, President Joe Biden is aiming to cut oil, gas and coal emissions and double energy production from offshore wind turbines through a series of executive orders. Biden signed three orders at the White House on Wednesday that target federal subsidies for oil and other fossil fuels and stop new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters.

They also intend to conserve 30 percent of the country's lands and ocean waters in the next 10 years and move to an all-electric federal vehicle fleet. before the signing, Biden said the U.S. "has already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can't wait any longer." He also repeatedly highlighted that addressing climate change will create American jobs, not eliminate them. Biden has set a goal of eliminating pollution from fossil fuel in the power sector by 2035 and from the U.S. economy overall by 2050, speeding a market-driven growth of solar and wind energy and lessening the country's dependence on oil and gas. The ambitious plan is aimed at slowing human-caused global warming that is magnifying extreme weather events such as deadly wildfires in the West and drenching rains and hurricanes in the East.