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I'm Bethany Van Delft, and this is the 10 News.

During its 2020 campaign, President Biden promised to move fast on environmental protections.

Now that he's been in office for a few months, how's he doing on that promise?

I want to hear everything.

Well, so far, his administration has added 18 new regulations and overturned 20 policies that environmental groups like the Audubon

Society and the Natural Resources Defense Council opposed. Now we're talking. They've stopped a copper

mine from operating in Arizona after local Native American tribes argued it could endanger sacred

sites and sensitive habitats.

The administration also pumped the brakes on a decision to slash three million acres of

northern spotted owl habitat, at least for now.

Maybe the biggest decision so far was ending the permit to finish the Keystone XL pipeline,

which was supposed to carry crude oil from Alberta, Canada, all the way to the southern states and the Gulf Coast.

Why is that a big deal?

Well, environmentalists were against the pipeline from the beginning over safety concerns

and the increased greenhouse gases that the pipeline would the beginning over safety concerns and the increased greenhouse

gases that the pipeline would release into the atmosphere. It also threatened the water supply

and lands of the Rosebud Sioux tribe and other native peoples. Is there more work to do?

Yep. Absolutely. But everything's got to start somewhere to do? Yep. Absolutely.

But everything's got to start somewhere, right?

14-year-old Benjamin Kagan cares about people's health.

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