After being sworn into the highest office in the land President Joe Biden wasted no time getting to work. Yesterday, our new president signed 17 executive orders, some of which are designed to target climate change. However, GOP members are harshly criticizing Biden’s new executive orders which will eliminate thousands of American jobs in the midst of battling a pandemic that has already left 900,000 Americans unemployed. Biden revoked a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, committed the US to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, and placed a temporary moratorium was placed on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

Fox Business reports:

“Rejoining the deeply flawed Paris Climate Accord and blocking the Keystone XL Pipeline will eliminate jobs, increase the cost of energy,” said Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney in a statement. “Today’s Executive Orders reverse important policies and impose significant economic cost that will imperil our recovery.”

“The biggest losers from this decision are the energy workers who stood to benefit from the pipeline,” Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said.

Biden also put a temporary moratorium on oil drilling in the ecologically plentiful Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska – an area that has roughly 10 billion barrels of “technically recoverable oil.”

“At a time when the United States, and especially Alaska, is struggling to deal with the impacts of COVID-19, I am astounded to see that the Biden administration’s ‘day one’ priority is put our economy, jobs, and nation’s security at risk,” said Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska following the executive order.

Biden has been president for less than 24 hours and already wants to undo the years of work from the Trump administration which enacted industry-friendly policies.