Dr. Bernard Weinstein, Associate Director of the Maguire Energy Institute, wrote about how during the first week of his presidency, Joe Biden signed two significant executive orders to help burnish his environment bona fides. On day one, he revoked the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and, a week later, he declared a one-year moratorium on new leases for oil and gas drilling and fracking on federal lands and waters. Read more here.