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Biden signs sweeping action on climate change
President Biden is forming a White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy to tackle climate change. Nancy Cordes reports.
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President Biden is forming a White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy to tackle climate change. Nancy Cordes reports.
California is getting pummeled by severe weather caused by an atmospheric river, which can move water vapor faster than the Mississippi River. Carter Evans explains.
The White House says getting children back in the classroom is a priority. Reopening schools could become easier after the Centers for Disease Control announced there's been little evidence of transmission if precautions are followed. Meg Oliver reports.
The Biden administration is weighing using the Defense Production Act to manufacture more vaccines amid a chaotic rollout. Jonathan Vigliotti has the latest.
The variant appears to be 50% more contagious than other strains of the virus.
President Biden has signed several executive orders aimed at combating climate change. But will his policies do enough? Climate scientist Michael Mann, author of "The New Climate War," joins CBSN's Tanya Rivero to discuss.
President Joe Biden announced steps his administration will take to combat climate change and build a greener economy. "It's a future of enormous opportunity," he said, vowing to "put climate change at the center of our domestic, national security and foreign policy." Watch his remarks.
President Biden says the U.S. is buying 200 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines, but the process of vaccinating a majority of Americans will take months. CBSN's Tanya Rivero spoke with Jeffrey Shaman, a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, about what the nation needs to do to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control.
To date, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invested $1.75 billion in the fight against COVID-19.
California is bracing for heavy rain and snow. CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli joins CBSN AM to talk about the forecast and how this type of storm is linked to climate change. He also breaks down a new report on the rising rate of ice loss due to climate change.