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President Obama is looking to gain back some control over the climate after it was unveiled by his administration this week that there would be new executive orders.

According to the Huffington Post, Obama is directing federal agencies to revise programs and policies that might be any barrier on climate change.

The site reports:

The order builds out the Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience that President Obama called for in his June climate change speech. The task force will bring together local, state and tribal officials to collaborate on approaches for dealing with climate impacts and advise the federal government. Those impacts include heat waves, extreme storm events, droughts, ocean acidification, sea-level rise and the melting of the permafrost.

The task force includes the Democratic governors of Hawaii, California, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, Illinois and Vermont. There is only one Republican governor who signed on to the task force — Eddie Calvo, the governor of the small Pacific Island territory of Guam. The task force also includes 16 mayors and two tribal leaders.

And that’s not all.

The executive order also creates a second group –- the Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience –- made up of senior officials from all of the federal agencies and led by the head of the Council on Environmental Quality, Obama’s top national security adviser and the head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The council is set to replace the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force that Obama created in 2009.

The plan will also force federal agencies to adjust laws that might also put a barrier on addressing climate-related issues.

There’s no doubt that something needs to be done!

SOURCE: Huffington Post | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty