CEQ Announces Public Listening Sessions and Training Webinars on Draft Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. Public Engagement Sessions to Gather Feedback on Screening Tool that Will Help Federal Agencies Ensure that the Benefits of Federal Programs are Reaching Disadvantaged Communities. (White House)
One-Year Wrap-Up: Highlights from the Council on Environmental Quality’s Progress in Tackling the Climate Crisis, Advancing Environmental Justice, Conserving and Restoring Lands and Waters, Boosting Clean Energy Investments and Strengthening Federal Sustainability. (White House)
President Biden announced during his remarks at the U.S. Conference of Mayors that his Administration is teaming up with states, cities, labor, and industry to launch the Building Performance Standards Coalition, a first-of-its-kind partnership between 33 state and local governments dedicated to delivering cleaner, healthier, and more affordable buildings. (White House)
The Biden-Harris Administration is making major leaps forward on wind, solar, transmission, and other clean energy projects to create high-quality jobs and deliver affordable, carbon pollution-free electricity across the country. (White House)
President Biden signed the U.S Infrastructure Bill, which looks to advance environmental justice and deliver an equitable future for all. (TheNew York Times, White House website)
President Biden releases the Build Back Getter Framework, a plan to rebuild the middle class, including large investments in clean energy and climate action (White House website)
Senator Joe Manchin III (D-West Virginia) told the White House he is firmly against the Clean Electricity Program – a program to rapidly replace the nation’s coal- and gas-fired power plants with wind, solar and nuclear energy – which will impact the President’s climate agenda.
On October 7, 2021, the White House announced the release of more than 20 Federal Agency Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plans (Office of the Federal Chief Sustainability Officer)
“A rough summer in California marred by raging wildfires and blistering drought has offered a silver lining — the state’s solar energy production is so staggering that it may take a break next month in order to relieve its lines. That success story comes in the midst of a nationwide effort to bolster fossil fuels…