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Ever since the Biden Administration unveiled its sweeping, $2 trillion American Jobs Plan on March 31, his team’s narrative has been notable for what’s missing. A key goal of the plan is to address climate change, yet largely absent from the sales pitch are dire warnings about a warming planet. In their place are breathless visions of new American manufacturing, innovation, and clean-energy independence. In part the goal is to win vital labor support for the proposal. More broadly, the aim ...

WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following 10 individuals to serve on key Administration boards and commissions. Deirdre Hamilton for Member, National Mediation Board Cynthia Hogan for Member, Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service Catherine McLaughlin for Member, Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service Shirley Sagawa for Member, Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and...

Published: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Oil workers and solar workers. Photo credit: Bureau of Land Management (oil workers); Department of Agriculture/Flickr (solar) Unions and clean energy advocates weighed in yesterday on how to manage the transition from fossil fuel to clean energy jobs. Bureau of Land Management (oil workers); Department of Agriculture/Flickr (solar) As President Biden plans a global summit this week to tackle climate change, two wings of the presidents coalition — clean ene...

Print this article Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with whats going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! THE BARGAIN: Labor groups of all stripes are lining up behind President Joe Biden’s green infrastructure plans, as long he delivers on his promise to close the job quality gap between renewable energy and fossil fuel-related employment. At an event with Sen. Joe ...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Drug maker Pfizer, aerospace giant Boeing, and defense contractor Lockheed Martin among $1 million donors. Unions and individual Democratic megadonors also made six- and seven-figure contributions. Bidens inauguration committee chose to accept corporate contributions. Barack Obamas 2009 inaugural rejected them. Numerous corporations helped bankroll President Joe Bidens made-for-TV inauguration celebrations, together contributing well i...

Charlie Crist banks $347K in Q1 as he mulls next political step U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist is sitting on more than $646,000 in his federal campaign account for reelection to Florida’s 13th Congressional District in 2022, according to the latest financial filings with the Federal Elections Commission. In the first quarter of 2021 covering Jan. 1 through March 31, Crist raised $347,188. After accounting for $120,000 in expenditures during that period, Crist grew his federal account by about $227...

John Monzingo John Edward Monzingo passed away on April 15, 2021, at the age of 87. He was at home with his family at the time of his passing. Dr. Monzingo was born on June 1, 1934, to Earl and Minnie (Miller) Monzingo in Fairview, Oklahoma. He was the 6th of 7 children, and the last born before their move to California in 1937. He loved telling stories about his time growing up in Compton, CA. His family lived in a garage that had been sectioned off for a semblance of privacy, but there ...

Rosendin Renewable Energy Group and Tokyo Gas America have started construction of the 631MW Aktina solar farm in the US state of Texas. A total of 1.4 million solar modules will be installed across 1619 hectares in Wharton County, outside the Houston Metro area. Aktina will be brought online in stages starting in mid-2021, with electricity generated sold to the ERCOT wholesale market. It is scheduled to be fully operational in the first half of next year. Rosendin has hired 500 employees and u...

Veteran civil-rights activist Tim Stevens says he didnt authorize his appearance in this attack ad. The first real attack ad of Pittsburgh’s mayoral campaign — aired by the kind of outside-spending group that local politicos have been expecting — landed this week. And one of the people feeling stung by it isn’t even a candidate. “We felt like our credibility was at stake,” said Tim Stevens, a longtime Black civic leader and founder of Black Political Empowerment Project, after see...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Pa. Judge Trims Labor Dept. Election Suit Against Philly Union Law360 (April 15, 2021, 4:12 PM EDT) -- A Pennsylvania federal judge has trimmed a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit against the Philadelphia chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, ruling that some of the departments claims went beyond a union members internal complaint over the June 2020 leadership election. U.S. District Judge Gerald A. McHugh said Wednesday that Labor Secretary...