(The Guardian) Biden details $6bn spending on climate resilience
Joe Biden has unveiled a $6bn effort to bolster climate resilience across the country as his administration released on Tuesday the government’s fifth annual national climate assessment.
“It’s most comprehensive assessment on state climate change in the history of America. And it matters. This assessment shows us, in clear scientific terms, that climate change is impacting all regions, all sectors in the United States,” the president said. “It shows that communities across America are taking more action than ever to reduce climate risk. [But] it warns that more action is still badly needed. We can’t be complacent.”
The department of energy, he said, will spend $3.9bn from the bipartisan Infrastructure Act, to strengthen and modernize the nation’s electric grid.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will use $2bn from the Inflation Reduction Act to support community-driven projects that deploy clean energy, strengthen climate resilience, and build community capacity to respond to environmental and climate justice challenges, Biden added. Other money will go to drought resilience projects and reducing flood risk in areas across the nation. Details are in the White House statement here.
Biden also used his address to take a swipe at Donald Trump: It’s a simple fact that there are a number of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, Maga [make America great again] Republican leaders who still deny climate change, still deny it’s a problem.
My predecessor [Trump] and much of the Maga Republican Party feel very strongly. But anyone who willfully denies the impact of climate change is condemning the American people to a very dangerous future. The impacts we’re seeing are only going to get worse, more frequent, more ferocious and more costly. None of this is inevitable.
Joe Biden has unveiled a $6bn effort to bolster climate resilience across the country as his administration released on Tuesday the government’s fifth annual national climate assessment.
“It’s most comprehensive assessment on state climate change in the history of America. And it matters. This assessment shows us, in clear scientific terms, that climate change is impacting all regions, all sectors in the United States,” the president said. “It shows that communities across America are taking more action than ever to reduce climate risk. [But] it warns that more action is still badly needed. We can’t be complacent.”
The department of energy, he said, will spend $3.9bn from the bipartisan Infrastructure Act, to strengthen and modernize the nation’s electric grid.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will use $2bn from the Inflation Reduction Act to support community-driven projects that deploy clean energy, strengthen climate resilience, and build community capacity to respond to environmental and climate justice challenges, Biden added. Other money will go to drought resilience projects and reducing flood risk in areas across the nation. Details are in the White House statement here.
Biden also used his address to take a swipe at Donald Trump: It’s a simple fact that there are a number of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, Maga [make America great again] Republican leaders who still deny climate change, still deny it’s a problem.
My predecessor [Trump] and much of the Maga Republican Party feel very strongly. But anyone who willfully denies the impact of climate change is condemning the American people to a very dangerous future. The impacts we’re seeing are only going to get worse, more frequent, more ferocious and more costly. None of this is inevitable.
