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Here s What A Civilian Climate Corps Could Look Like
A new proposal from an influential policy outfit outlines how the Biden administration could put 1.5 million Americans to work.
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Civilian Conservation Corps worker Carl Simon installs insulators on top of a telephone pole about 1940 in Superior National Forest in Minnesota.
It’s December 2025, the end of a difficult year. Just a few months earlier, a massive hurricane destroyed dozens of homes in your town, even killed a few of your neighbors. Your house was fine, but you lost power for weeks. The waterfront park where you liked to eat lunch between shifts as a cashier is underwater. Trees are still down, and mudslides cover several roads, making it basically impossible to pick up the extra money you made driving an Uber. Despair starts to eclipse the guilt you feel for surviving the storm.
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The Senate confirmed Brenda Mallory to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality in a bipartisan 53-45 vote, filling a role critical to the Biden administration’s effort to speed clean energy development and curb emissions in infrastructure.
Mallory, as the head of the CEQ, will face the
tricky challenge of speeding up clean energy permitting without sacrificing the scope of reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act. It’s a struggle Mallory acknowledged during her confirmation hearing last month.
“In a time when the environmental impacts that we’re facing from climate change and other things are so grave, we don’t want to lose the value that NEPA can bring to our decisionmaking, but we also need to figure out ways that will allow us to make these important decisions in a timely way,” she said during the March 3 hearing, in response to questions from Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat.
Biden taps ex-Obama official as Interior Department deputy
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1of5Secretary of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland attends a Cabinet meeting with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 1, 2021, in Washington.Evan Vucci/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the federal coronavirus response on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 18, 2021.Susan Walsh/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of5FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2020, file photo, Brenda Mallory speaks at The Queen Theater in Wilmington Del. The Senate on April 14, 2021, confirmed Mallory to chair the White House Council on Environmental Quality.Carolyn Kaster/APShow MoreShow Less