Indiana s strategic position boosts its wind power industry dailyherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailyherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and
Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) reintroduced legislation that aims to address the needs of the offshore wind industry and train new and incumbent workers through a new grant program. The legislation first directs the
Department of Energy to identify the offshore wind industry s needs by engaging with stakeholders including labor, institutions of higher education, industry, ports, and state and local governments. Based on this initial industry workforce gap analysis, a grant program would be created to support training new and incumbent workers, provide tuition assistance, and support apprenticeship programs.
The grant program would authorize
$25 million a year from fiscal year 2022 through 2026. More importantly, this piece of legislation would create thousands of jobs and help the
U S Senate moves forward on $1T infrastructure deal, including $73B for clean energy transmission dailyenergyinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailyenergyinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
US Senate Votes on Infrastructure Plan, Agrees to Advance Bill to Floor
There is dedicated funding in the infrastructure package to replace lead service lines and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
The Senate has voted to begin work on a national infrastructure plan, which includes $550 billion in new infrastructure spending.
This comes after weeks of negotiations between the White House and a bipartisan group of senators, which have now agreed on major provisions of the package, according to The White House fact sheet about the plan.
According to The White House fact sheet, the deal will add, on average, around 2 million jobs per year over the course of the decade. This package marks the largest investment, $55 billion, in clean drinking water and waste water infrastructure in American history.
Offshore wind industry will employ tens of thousands, experts say capecodtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from capecodtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.