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Biden marks Earth Day with $7bn ‘solar for all’ investment amid week of climate action
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Joe Biden will mark Monday’s Earth Day by announcing a $7bn investment in solar energy projects nationwide, focusing on disadvantaged communities, and unveiling a week-long series of what the White House say will be “historic climate actions”.
The president is traveling to Virginia’s Prince William Forest Park to deliver a speech touting his environmental record, including measures to tackle the climate crisis and increase access to, and lower costs of, clean energy.
Today’s centerpiece is the announcement of $7bn in grants through the Environmental Protection Agency’s “solar for all” program, funded by last year’s $369bn bipartisan Inflation Reduction Act, which the Biden administration says benefits more than 900,000 households.
“One of the most innovative provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act was the creation of the greenhouse gas reduction fund, which was designed to mobilize private capital to address the climate crisis, ensure our country’s economic competitiveness, and deliver lower energy costs and economic revitalization to communities that have historically been left behind,” Janet McCabe, deputy administrator of the EPA, said in a press call ahead of Biden’s announcement on Monday at the national park in Triangle, Virginia.
The site, climatecorps.gov, aims to fill about 20,000 positions across 36 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico, hosted by organizations working on clean energy, conservation and climate resilience projects.
“He and the vice-president have been relentless in their pursuit of historic legislation to help clean up our air and water, strengthen our economy, create good-paying American jobs and deliver life-changing investments to communities across the country.”
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