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Thursday, September 21st, 2023

Biden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps

Author:     Matthew Daly
Source:     Seattle Times
Publication Date:     Sep. 20, 2023 | 5:14 am
Link: Biden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps
Stephan:  

Here is some lovely good news. President Biden thwarted by the Congressional Republicans is using his executive authority to create a modern version of Franklin Roosevelt’s WPA and Civilian Conservation Corps that so successfully changed America for the better in ways we still benefit from. How is it possible that a convicted rapist, convicted scammer currently under 91 felonious indictments, and Joe Biden can be polling equally? I just don’t get why Americans don’t seem to recognize what Biden and the Democrats are doing to prepare for the changes being wrought by climate change and to improve their lives.

 Climate activists rally in front of the White House at Lafayette Square to demand that President Joe Biden declare a climate emergency and move the country rapidly away from fossil fuels. Credit: Yuri Gripas / AP

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.

In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation and help prevent catastrophic wildfires.

The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost.

Democrats and environmental advocacy groups never gave up on the plan and pushed Biden in recent weeks to issue an executive order authorizing what the White House now calls the American Climate Corps.

“After years of demonstrating and fighting for a […]

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1 Comment

  1. Terri Quint on Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 6:28 am

    The ratings being nearly the same for Biden and rTUMP are similar because his cult only listens to Fox News. If that’s all you hear, then you think he’s wonderful and should be re-elected!
    So many Americans have become soooo dumb in the last 20 years or so!!!! Terri Quint