This Is What Biden's Budget Does for the Environment

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Here’s how President Biden plans to address climate change, pollution, and public lands in the greatest detail we’ve seen so far

On May 28, the Biden Administration published its first annual budget request for fiscal year 2022. It’s ambitious, going far beyond simply a return to normalcy, and envisioning a future where the federal government more actively addresses the problems our country faces.

“Don’t tell me what you value,” President Biden said back in 2008, reciting one of his father’s expressions. “Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.”

Federal budgets are set by Congress, not the White House. While it’s unlikely that any president’s budget proposal will move through the House and Senate unaltered, they do give us unique insight into an administration’s plans and priorities.

Climate Change
The budget request adds $14 billion in new annual spending to address climate change across all relevant government agencies. That money would help build the country’s capacity for switching away from fossil fuels in what Biden calls a “whole of government” attempt to address the problem.

The administration is promising to spend 40 percent of those investments in marginalized communities, which are disproportionately impacted by climate change.

The budget also includes a $1.2 billion investment in the Green Climate Fund, a United Nations organization created by the Paris Agreement on climate change. The fund helps developing countries work toward lower emissions. The Obama administration invested $1 billion in it before President Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement in 2017.


Much more: https://www.outsideonline.com/2424435/bidens-2022-budget-does-environment#close