United StatesWhite House finalizing plan to help polluted communities, council chair says
Valerie Volcovici
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Brenda Mallory, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden s nominee for Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, speaks after Biden announced her nomination among another round of nominees and appointees for his administration in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., December 19, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
The White House Council on Environmental Quality expects to submit a plan for helping clean up the nationâs most polluted communities to President Joe Biden within weeks, according to the councilâs new chair, Brenda Mallory.
The widely anticipated blueprint is intended to help Biden execute a campaign promise to ensure 40% of federal clean energy investment benefits flow to disadvantaged communities, and should be ready by the end of May, she said.
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Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital
Congress. The Senate is in session this week, and the House is out of session until May 10. House Republicans are headed to Orlando, FL this week for their annual issues retreat, which will include numerous speakers, though former President Donald Trump has not been invited. Meanwhile, the Senate is set to vote on numerous nominees as well as on Sen. Tammy Duckworth s (D-IL) Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021, which earned a unanimous vote last month in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Additionally, there are a handful of committee hearings this week, including a hearing from Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Wednesday on the COVID response and one from House Science, Space, and Technology (SST) on National Science Foundation research. On Thursday, the hearings include ones from the House Education and Labor and House Small Business Committees on Building Back Better and f
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Bill Gates appears to have made an inadvertent dig at former US president Donald Trump as he thanked his successor Joe Biden “for re-establishing America’s leading role on climate”.
The Microsoft co-founder’s comments came on the second and final day of Mr Biden’s virtual climate summit, as the president and members of his administration repeatedly emphasised that they would ensure the transition to clean energy provides jobs for all workers – in particular those without degrees and those at the deprived end of the current job market.
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