Climate GOAT: President Biden is the Most Accomplished Climate President in History

President Biden is protecting public lands, creating opportunities for young Americans, and making our air and water cleaner

Trump threatens to reverse progress on climate, gave billions in tax breaks to the Big Oil CEOs funding his campaign

Washington, D.C. – This Earth Day, our planet and our country are better off thanks to President Biden. Since he took office, his administration’s clean energy plan has helped create over 271,000 clean energy jobs, pumped billions in investments, protected more than 41 million acres of land and water, worked to keep our drinking water clean from dirty forever chemicals, and so much more. When Donald Trump was in office, he put his Big Oil donors first — rolling back environmental standards so they could pollute our air and water and giving the industry a massive tax break. 

“President Biden made protecting the environment and climate progress a top priority on his first day in office when he recommitted the U.S. to the Paris Agreement,” said Climate Power executive director Lori Lodes. “Since then, he’s taken more climate action than any other president in American history. President Biden’s clean energy plan has given the American people cheaper, cleaner energy choices, revitalized communities nationwide, and held Big Oil accountable while slashing pollution. His presidency has made our communities safer, our air and water cleaner, and brought made-in-America manufacturing jobs back. All of our progress is at risk if we elect Big Oil puppet Donald Trump – the stakes couldn’t be higher for climate this election.”

President Biden has accomplished more than any other President in history. 

• Today, President Biden announced $7 billion in grants through ‘Solar for All’ – which will deliver solar power to over 900,000 households in low-income communities, saving families money in electricity costs and lowering pollution. 
• The administration launched the American Climate Corps, a jobs training program launched by the Biden-Harris administration to ensure young people have access to good-paying jobs in clean energy and climate resilience. Today, President Biden will announce several new developments in the program’s rollout – including launching a jobs portal with nearly 2,000 positions across the country. 
• The clean energy plan helped create more than 271,000 new clean energy jobs – making cleaner, cheaper energy more available. Thanks to President Biden, we’re on a path to create 9 million jobs by 2030, cementing American leadership over China in clean energy and tripling American production of clean, renewable energy.
• This administration is holding Big Oil accountable, fining them for breaking pollution standards, closing their tax loopholes, and making them pay their fair share for the mess they make on public lands. 
• President Biden is reducing pollution to make our communities healthier through investments to replace lead pipes to deliver safe drinking water, slashing soot pollution by 25% to save lives and prevent more asthma attacks, and creating the Justice40 Initiative to ensure clean energy investments go to communities that impact them the most. 
• The Biden-Harris administration is making our country safer by making us less reliant on volatile foreign oil and allocating billions to make our communities more resilient in the face of the climate crisis. 
• And thanks to President Biden – we’re leaving a liveable planet for future generations.

If Donald Trump is re-elected – our country, our planet, and our clean energy boom will be at risk. When Trump was in office: 

• Donald Trump filled his administration with fossil fuel lobbyists and climate deniers. He gave his Big Oil buddies a $25 billion tax break and made sure the industry saw a windfall from his 2017 tax plan. 
• As President, Trump rolled back more than 100 environmental rules, including nearly 30 air pollution and emission rules, 12 drilling and extraction rules, and eight water pollution rules. 
• Trump launched a war on the nation’s clean energy economy that cost jobs and stunted growth. The former president’s policies amount to a war on the clean energy economy that cost jobs, stunted growth, and impeded the nation’s ability to tackle climate change. 
• The Trump administration rolled back clean car standards, making our air dirtier with dangerous tailpipe emissions. Trump rolled back clean car standards in accordance with a lobbying campaign by Big Oil. 
• Trump denied climate science and withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement. The United States’ participation would have saved over half a trillion dollars annually, and the Agreement was projected to create 24 million clean energy jobs globally by 2030.