Good afternoon, everybody. I know the press has just had a long, uh, session with the team here about what we're talking about today and this afternoon. And let me just start by saying I can't tell you how much I appreciate the three people standing next to me here for what they've agreed to do to help, particularly my best buddy, John Kerry. Asking a former secretary of state to come back and do this has been a as I know, there's a big ask on the part of myself. I was gonna I was gonna blame common for it as well, but for both of us and, uh, but, uh, John's been deeply involved. The sector has been deeply involved in climate issues as a senator and one of the leaders legislatively as well on. I don't think anybody knows more about the issue. And the damage has been done by some of the executive orders of previous administration. And you've run everything. Gina, Thank you very much. Let me get to it. Today. Uh, is climate day at the White House on, uh, which means that today is jobs day at the White House. We're talking about American innovation, American products, American labor. We're talking about the health of our families and cleaner water, cleaner air and, uh, cleaner communities. We're talking about national security, America leading the world in a clean energy future. It's a future of enormous hope and opportunity. It's about coming to the moment to deal with this maximum threat that we exit where that's now facing us climate change with a greater sense of urgency. In my view, we've already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can't wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes. We feel it. We know it in our bones and it's time to act. I might snow parenthetically, if you notice the attitude of the American people toward greater impetus on focusing on climate change and doing something about it has increased across the board. Democrat, Republican independent. It's That's why I'm signing today. An executive order to supercharger administration Ambitious plan to confront the existential threat of climate change is an existential threat. Last year, wildfires burned more than 5000 acres in the West as no one knows better than the vice president, former senator from California um area roughly the size of the entire state of New Jersey Mawr. Intense and powerful hurricanes, tropical storms pummel states across the Gulf Coast and along the East Coast. I can testify to that from Delaware. Historic FLOODS Severe droughts have ravaged the Midwest Mawr. Americans see and feel the devastation in big cities, small towns, coastlines and in farmlands and red states and blue states. And the Defense Department reported that climate change is a direct threat to more than two thirds of the military's operational critical installations. Two thirds. And so this week we could. This could well be on the conservative side, and many climate and health calamities are colliding all at once. It's not just the pandemic that keeps people inside its poor air quality. Multiple studies have shown that air pollution is associated with an increased risk of death from Cove in 19. And just like we need a unified national response to Cova 19, we desperately need a unified national response to the climate crisis because there is a climate crisis we must keep. We must lead global response because neither challenge can be met, as Secretary Kerry's pointed out many times by the United States alone. We know what to do. We just got to do it. When we think of climate change, we think of it. This is a case where conscience and convenience cross paths. We're dealing with this existential threat to the planet and increasing our economic growth and prosperity are one and the same. When I think of climate change, I think of the and the answers to it. I think of jobs. A key plank of our build back. Better recovery plan is building a modern, resilient climate, infrastructure and clean energy future that will create millions of good paying union jobs. Not 78 10 $12 an hour. But prevailing wage and benefits, you know, we can put millions of Americans the work modernizing our water systems, transportation, our energy infrastructure to withstand the impacts of extreme climate. We've already reached the point where we're gonna have to live with what it is now that's gonna require a lot of work all by itself without it getting any worse. We think of renewable energy. We see American manufacturing, American workers racing toe, lead the global market. We see farmers making American agriculture first in the world to achieve net zero emissions and gaining new sources of income in the process. I wanna parenthetically thank the secretary of agriculture for helping to put together that program. During the campaign, we see small business and Master Electrician's designing, installing and innovating energy conserving technologies and building homes and buildings. And we're going to reduce electric consumption and save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and energy costs in the process. And when the previous administration reversed the Obama Biden vehicle standard and pick big oil companies over American workers, the Biden Harris administration will not only bring those standards back will set new, ambitious ones that are workers are ready to meet. We see these workers building new buildings, installing 500,000 new electric vehicle charging stations across the country As we modernize our highway system to adapt to the changes have already taken place. We see American consumers switching to electric vehicles through rebates and incentives and the residents of our cities and towns, breathing cleaner air and fewer kids living with asthma and dying from it. And not only that the federal government owns and maintains an enormously two vehicles, as you all know, with today's executive order combined with the Buy American Executive Order I signed on Monday, we're gonna harness the purchasing power of the federal government to buy clean zero emission vehicles that are made and source by union workers right here in America with everything I just mentioned. This will mean one million new jobs in the American automobile industry. One million we'll do. Another thing would take steps towards my goal of achieving 100% carbon pollution free electric sector by 2035. Transforming the American electric sector to produce power without carbon pollution will be a tremendous spurred, a job creation and economic competitiveness in the 21st century, not to mention the benefits of our health and to our environment. Already, 84% of all new electric capacity plan to come onto the electric grid this year. Is clean energy clean energy? Why? Because it's affordable because it's clean because in many cases it's cheaper and way we're keeping up there keeping up. We're gonna need scientists. The national labs, land grant, universities, historical black colleges, universities to innovate, the technologies needed to generate, store and transmit clean electric clean electricity across distances on battery technology and a whole range of other things. We need engineers to design them and workers to manufacture them. We need ironworkers and welders to install them. Technologies they invent, design and build well, ultimately ultimately become cheaper than any other kind of energy, helping us dramatically expand our economy and create more jobs with a cleaner, cleaner environment and will become the world's largest exporter of those technologies, creating even more jobs. You know, we're also gonna build 1.5 million new energy efficient homes in public housing units that they're gonna benefit communities three times over one by alleviating a formal, affordable housing crisis two by increasing energy efficiency and three by reducing the racial wealth gap linked to home ownership. We're also gonna create more than a quarter million jobs to do things like plug the million's of abandoned oil and gas wells that pose an ongoing threat to the health and safety of our communities. They're abandoned wells. They're open now, and we're gonna put people toe work. We're not gonna lose jobs in these areas. Gonna create jobs. They're gonna get prevailing wage toe cap, those over a million wells. These aren't pie in the sky dreams these air concrete actionable solutions and we know how to do this. Obama Biden administration. Reduce the auto industry, rescue the auto industry and help them retool. We need solar energy cost competitive with traditional energy. Whether rising more, we made it cost competitive. Whether rising more than a Million Homes Recovery Act of our administer last administer arm of the Democratic administration made record clean energy investments $90 billion. The president asked me toe, make sure how that money was spent on everything from smart grid systems to clean energy manufacturing. Now the Biden Harris administration is gonna do it again and go beyond the executive order I'll be signing, establishes the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy. It will be led by one of America's most distinguished climate leaders, former EPA director Gina McCarthy. As the head of the new office and my national climate adviser, Gina will chair the National Climate Task Force, made up of many members of our Cabinet, to deliver a whole of government approach to the climate crisis. This is not it's not time for small measures. We need to be bold. So let me be clear that includes helping revitalize the economies of coal, oil and gas and power plant communities. We have to start creating new, good paying jobs, capping those abandoned wells, reclaiming minds, turning old brownfield sites in the new hubs of economic growth, creating new, good paying jobs in those communities where those workers live because they helped build this country. We're never gonna get the men and women who dug the coal and built the nation. We're going to do right by them. Make sure they have opportunities to keep building the nation in their own communities and getting paid well for it. While the whole of government approach is necessary, though, it's not sufficient. We're gonna work with mayors and governors and tribal leaders and business leaders who are stepping up in the young people, organizing and leading the way. My message to those young people is you have your full capacity and power of the federal government. Your government is gonna work with you now. Today's executive order also directs the Secretary of the Interior to stop issuing new oil and gas leases on public lands and off and in offshore waters. Wherever possible, we're gonna review and reset the oil and gas leasing program. Like the previous administration, we'll start to properly manage. Unlike it, we're gonna start to properly manage lands and waterways in ways that allow us to protect preserve them the full value that they provide for us for future generations. Let me be clear, and I know it's always comes up. We're not going to ban. Fracking will protect jobs and grow jobs, including through stronger standards like controls from methane leaks and union workers, and willing to install the changes. Unlike previous administrations, I dont think the federal government should give handouts to big oil to the tune of $40 billion in fossil fuel subsidies. And I'm gonna be going to the Congress asking them to eliminate those subsidies. We're gonna take money and invested in clean energy jobs, millions of jobs and wind, solar and carbon capture. In fact, today's action is gonna help us increase from a noble energy production from offshore wind and meet our obligation to be good stewards of our public lands. It establishes a new modern day civilian climate core, and I called for when I was campaigning to heal our public lands and make us less vulnerable the wildfires and floods. Look, this executive order I'm signing today also makes it official that climate change will be the center of our national security and foreign policy. A Secretary Kerry as our special presidential envoy for climate with him. The world knows how serious I am about one of America's by pointing one of America's most distinguished statesman on one of my closest friends. Speaking for America on one of the most pressing threats of our time, John was instrumental in negotiating the Paris climate agreement that we started that we that we re joined. This administration rejoined on Day one, as I promised. And today's executive order will help strengthen that commitment by working with other nations to support the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change and to increase our collective resilience. That includes a summit off world leaders that I'll convene to address this climate crisis on Earth Day this year in order to establish a new effort to integrate the security implications of climate change. As part of our national security, risk assessment and analysis will also be included With this executive order. Environmental justice will be at the center all we do, addressing the disproportionate health and environmental and economic impacts on communities of color. So called fence line communities, especially those communities brown, black, Native American, poor whites. It's hard. The hearted areas like Cancer Alley in Louisiana, Cancer Alley in Louisiana or the Route nine Carter in the state of Delaware. That's why we're gonna work to make sure that they received 40% of the benefits off key federal investments in clean energy, clean water and wastewater infrastructure. Lifting up these communities makes us all stronger as a nation and increases the health of everybody. Finally, as with our fight against covert 19, we will listen to the science and protect the integrity of our federal response to the climate crisis. Earlier this month, I nominated Dr Eric Lander Ah, brilliant scientist who is here today to be the director of the Office of Science and Technology. I also nominate another brilliant scientist, Dr Frances Arnold and Dr Maria Zuber, to co chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. So called P cast the President Eisenhower started six weeks after the launch of Sputnik. It's a team of America's top scientists charge of asking the most American of questions. What next? What's the next big breakthrough and then helping us make the impossible possible? Today I'm signed a presidential memorandum making it clear that we will protect our world class scientists from political interference and ensure they can think research and speak freely and directly to me, the vice president and the American people to summarize this executive order. It's about jobs, good paying union jobs. It's about workers building our economy back better than before. It's a whole of government approach. Put climate change at the center of our domestic national security and foreign policy. It's advancing, conservation, revitalizing communities and cities and in the on the farmlands and securing environmental justice. Our plans are ambitious, but we are America were bold. We're unwavering in the pursuit of jobs and innovation, science and discovery. We can do this. We must do this and we will do this. I'm now going to sign the executive order to meet the climate crisis with American jobs and American ingenuity. I want to thank you all gonna go over and sign that now. Oh, use the right pencil. This is first order. I'm sign it is tackling climate crisis at home and abroad. Yeah, just this next one. Restoring trust in government through science and integrity and evidence based policy making more here. And this last one is the President's Council on Advisors on Science and Technology. Establish Thank you all for your time.