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U.S. President Joe Bidens American Jobs Plan includes $100 billion in spending on the nations aging power infrastructure. Source: Justin Sullivan/Getty Editorial via Getty Images U.S. President Joe Bidens $2 trillion infrastructure and energy plan would dramatically reshape the nations energy landscape by offering new tax incentives for clean energy, electric transmission projects, and carbon capture and storage technology. However, industry experts cautioned that the huge proposal, which Biden...

Advertisement The backbone of President Bidens plan to use infrastructure spending to advance climate policy is a clean electricity standard for the power sector that has the potential to be the most aggressive ever enacted by the federal government. Tucked into his $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal is the aim of "achieving 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035," according to a fact sheet released yesterday by the White House. "If we act now, in 50 years people are going to look back ...

One week before the election, Joe Biden went south. He was headed for  Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s familiar  Georgia getaway at the foot of Pine Mountain in Meriwether County. Known as “the Little White House,” it was FDR’s frequent retreat of during the Great Depression and the perfect backdrop for a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. “This place, Warm Springs, is a reminder that, though broken, each of us can be healed,” Biden told socially distanced supporters spread ou...

How Bidens infrastructure plan addresses the climate crisis Issued on: 01/04/2021 - 23:58 Electric energy generating wind turbines are seen on a wind farm in the San Gorgonio Pass area in Palm Springs David McNew AFP/File 4 min Washington (AFP) Its no coincidence US President Joe Biden chose manufacturing hub Pittsburgh to unveil his $2 trillion green infrastructure plan, a bold pitch to Americans used to hearing that climate action will wreck indust...

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The Office of Senator Debbie Stabenow WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow introduced her new bill to boost manufacturing by providing a 30% tax credit for manufacturers to retool or build new facilities to produce advanced energy parts or technologies. The American Jobs in Energy Manufacturing Act would incentivize manufacturers in Michigan to create jobs that draw on existing skilled workforces and reinvest in communities experiencing high unemployment. This is part of Senator Stabeno...

  AMMAN: Former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad has announced he will submit a list of independent candidates in the May 22 elections. Fayyad’s decision was revealed in a front-page interview on Tuesday in the Palestinian daily Al-Quds. Speaking to the newspaper’s editor, Mohammad Abu Libdeh, Fayyad said that his list “will be of independent faces that have had a presence in Palestinian life.” He called for a national effort to strengthen Palestinian steadfastness with authori...

Scientific American Economics may play a stronger role than fear in steering nuclear power toward a slow decline Print Picture taken on April 25, 2016, shows the two cooling towers of the nuclear power plant of Civaux, seen behind a colza field, in central France. Credit: Guillaume Souvant Advertisement Nuclear power faces a wobbly future 10 years after an earthquake and tsunami triggered a triple reactor meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. But the industry’s unstable footing ...

The president’s Covid-relief bill passed the Senate on Saturday. It was a remarkably drama-free milestone for a $1.9 trillion bill.

Joe Manchin opposed a Democratic plan for unemployment benefits. Opposition from Senate Democrats to a $15 minimum wage was also laid bare.