President Joe Biden entered the Oval Office swinging on energy and climate, revoking the Keystone XL pipeline and pausing new oil and gas leasing on federal land in his first week. However, he still left a lot to be desired for his liberal environmental constituencies through his first year.

Supportive lawmakers and interest groups generally maintain that Biden’s is an executive’s most ambitious climate change agenda in U.S. history. While some experts agree his administration enters 2022 with a good deal to show for it, they also emphasize ways in which it fell short of acting aggressively enough to move the economy off of fossil fuels.