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Biden squeezed between promises to go green and bolster unions
Dems are cranking out bills filled with carrots for developers of zero-emission infrastructure, but with pro-labor strings attached.
While both sides are eager to push clean energy projects forward, their disagreements will test President Joe Biden’s vow to be both the greenest and the most pro-union president in history. | Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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President Joe Biden’s green energy agenda is in danger of being engulfed in a fight between organized labor and industry over unionization, wages and other workplace issues.
As the renewable energy industry expands, unions and their allies in Congress are determined to unionize more of the jobs or, at the very least, require the payment of union-equivalent wages. But the industry says such moves would cripple some of their operations.