President Biden: Climate champion or fossil fuel friend?

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

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As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden promised to make climate change a major priority, But since taking office, President Joe Biden seems pretty friendly to the fossil fuel industry. What gives?

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:12.0	President Joe Biden announced his reelection campaign last week in a video just dripping
0:16.8	with Americana.
0:18.1	There's union workers wearing hard hats, a kid playing basketball, a farm, a church,
0:24.6	and Joe Biden whispering for some reason.
0:31.9	What there wasn't was any mention of climate change, which feels a little unexpected because
0:37.1	that was one of Biden's big issues back in 2020.
0:40.1	He called himself a climate change pioneer.
0:50.8	Biden promised to transform our economy into a green one by 2050, 100% clean energy,
0:56.6	more electric vehicles, way less fossil fuels.
1:00.0	In fact, Biden said he would ban new oil and gas developments on federal lands.
1:04.7	But like a lot of big campaign promises, that one fell flat.
1:08.3	Biden is approving new fossil fuel projects left and right.
1:12.5	And all of this has environmentalist reeling.
1:14.7	They're saying, didn't you TF?
1:16.6	If Biden is a climate change pioneer, why is he being so friendly to oil and gas?
1:22.8	I'm Whalen Wong and to deal with the indicator, we're teaming up with Nate Hegey from the
1:26.4	Environmental Podcast outside in HiNate.
1:29.9	Hey, Whalen.
1:30.9	And yeah, we are going to get to the bottom of three gambles.
1:34.7	Biden might be making on fossil fuels in the climate.
1:38.0	It's all part of a very controversial strategy, one that involves a lot of carrots, but very
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