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

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”.

  • BuelldozerA
    24·
    7 months ago

    But that money would go a lot further if we were able to use Chinese panels.

    AFAIK we can. The only ones “banned” are the ones being made with Uyghar labor.

    The only other issue I’m aware of is with Chinese companies playing a shell game where they sell them to a subsidiary company and then the subsidiary resell them into the US for the purpose of avoiding tariffs.

    Unfortunately a Korean company has been lobbying to put more tariffs on Chinese panels…

    No. The Korean company is looking to end the exemption that the Chinese companies have been enjoying. This is explained in the article.

    So now tax money is going to subsidize those Korean screens and they’ll probably still be more expensive than the Chinese ones.

    I’d rather that money go to American workers at a factory in America than have it going to Chinese workers at a factory located in China.

    I just can’t wait till neoliberals are over with.

    So you’re in a hurry to ignore the Uyghar problem so that you can save a couple of bucks. You’re trying to dine at the same table with American CEOs.

    China does it cheaper not because they’re awesome but because their environmental and labor safety rules are garbage and they are building the panels with either low cost or free (forced) labor. This is precisely where the Government is supposed to play referee; there is no possible way that a US Market and US Laborers can compete with what’s going on in China.