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A TEST FOR BIDEN PROMISE: If
Joe Biden moves quickly
to cancel the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, it will immediately test his promise to combat climate change while creating new high paying unions jobs in clean energy to replace fossil fuel-intensive ones.
A list of Biden’s day-one executive actions that circulated with stakeholders included directives that would rescind permits for the 2,000-mile oil pipeline, which would run from Alberta in western Canada to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
What happened? In the annual State of American Business speech this week, U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Thomas J. Donohue outlined the path for a widespread economic recovery through a bold agenda of infrastructure investments, workforce reskilling, immigration reforms, and reinvigorating America’s global competitiveness. Additionally, he warned that excessive regulations and anti-competitive taxes would undermine the recovery.
To complement the speech, the U.S. Chamber developed three State of American Business Policy Power Hours highlighting common-sense policy solutions for strengthening the recovery on the international, national, and state/local levels.
In the second of three Policy Power Hours, Neil Bradley, executive vice president and chief policy officer at the U.S. Chamber and Marty Durbin, president of the U.S. Chamber’s Global Energy Institute, led discussions on how broad-based support for infrastructure, workforce development, and immigration reform could work
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