Funds will be targeted at disadvantaged areas to create 200,000 jobs, after last week’s oil and gas lease restrictions in Alaska

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.

The money will be targeted at low-income and disadvantaged areas, government officials say, and distributed through “states, territories, tribes, municipalities and non-profits across the country”.

  • @Serinus@lemmy.world
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    03 months ago

    While you have a point, assume the guy was asking in good faith and then see how your response reads.

    • BuelldozerA
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      3 months ago

      That account isn’t asking in good faith.

      Edit: Comment…adjusted…to comply with rules.

    • partial_accumen
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      63 months ago

      There as no editorializing on my part in my response. I didn’t assign any motives or blame to their incorrect statement. I only posted that it was untrue (intentionally or not) and cited the source.