{"id":935188,"date":"2021-10-29T00:13:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T04:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=935188"},"modified":"2021-10-29T00:13:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T04:13:39","slug":"bidens-build-back-better-bill-gives-555-billion-in-clean-energy-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-build-back-better-bill-gives-555-billion-in-clean-energy-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#039;s Build Back Better Bill Gives $555 Billion in &#039;Clean Energy Investments&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-build-back-better-bill-gives-555-billion-in-clean-energy-investments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=935188&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden\u2019s beloved $1.75 trillion dollar spending bill will be a gift to climate change activists everywhere by giving up to $555 billion in \u201cclean energy investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The climate portion of the bill stands in line with President Biden\u2019s overall plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent come 2030. From <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2021\/10\/28\/whats-in-and-whats-out-of-bidens-new-1-75-trillion-build-back-better-reconciliation-plan\/\">Fortune<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>The plan would allocate $320 billion for clean energy tax credits; $105 billion to address pollution, extreme weather events, and to create a new Civilian Climate Corps to work with local communities; $110 billion in investments for clean energy companies and a cleaner supply chain; and $20 billion for the government to purchase energy efficient products and technologies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/11\/993976948\/reaching-back-to-the-new-deal-biden-proposes-a-civilian-climate-corps\">NPR<\/a>, the Civilian Climate Corps would \u201cemploy thousands of young people to address the threat of climate change, strengthen the country\u2019s natural defenses and maintain its ailing public lands.\u201d President Biden previously hailed it as a \u201cunified national response to climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17859682\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AOC-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17859682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AOC-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) rally young climate activists in Lafayette Square on the north side of the White House to demand President Joe Biden works to make the Green New Deal into law on June 28, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) rally young climate activists in Lafayette Square on the north side of the White House to demand President Joe Biden works to make the Green New Deal into law on June 28, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Climate activists have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/environment\/bidens-scaled-spending-bill-big-upsides-climate-fight-rcna4061\">praised<\/a> the environmental portion of the bill, calling it a historic investment into \u201cclean energy and environmental justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis would be an absolutely historic investment in clean energy and environmental justice \u2014 both of which are essential for climate progress,\u201d Abigail Dillen, president of Earthjustice, told NBC News. \u201cA package that makes all those investments at a scale that will be transformative over the next eight years is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sam Ricketts, co-founder and co-director of the climate advocacy group Evergreen Action, said the bill will show the rest of the world that America means business when combatting the issue of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will show the global community that America really is an ally and can be a leader in driving forward global climate efforts,\u201d Ricketts said. \u201cIt shows that after four years of President Trump\u2019s outright climate denial, the U.S. government is moving with leadership against this global crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cristina Tzintz\u00fan Ramirez, president of NextGen America, felt the bill should have gone further, accusing moderate Democrat Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) and Joe Manchin (WV) of forcing the \u201cparty to renege on essential promises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Build Back Better Framework announced by the White House today doesn\u2019t go far enough to address the economic and climate crises facing our generation,\u201d said Ramirez. \u201cA few moderate Democrats negotiated against the best interest of the American people, forcing the rest of their party to renege on essential promises.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18478410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cop26-oct25-2021-london-un-climate-change-meeting-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18478410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cop26-oct25-2021-london-un-climate-change-meeting-ap.jpg\" alt=\"A lone climate demonstrator holds a banner outside parliament in London, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, ahead of the UN climate conference COP26 that will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, next week. (AP Photo\/Kirsty Wigglesworth)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lone climate demonstrator holds a banner outside parliament in London, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, ahead of the UN climate conference COP26 that will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, next week. (AP Photo\/Kirsty Wigglesworth)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the Hill, President Biden will be <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/energy-environment\/578465-the-real-reason-biden-is-going-to-the-cop26-climate-summit\">visiting<\/a> the United Nations COP26 climate change conference in Scotland next week in hopes to \u201cChange the current political narrative that\u2019s questioning whether he\u2019s up to the job of president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth Biden and former&nbsp;<span class=\"rollover-people\">President Obama <a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/barack-obama\">want<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;to be seen as the game-changing leader on climate change. Both men see it as a legacy issue \u2014 especially their own legacy,\u201d noted the Hill. \u201cAnd one way to prove a country is leading on climate change is to promise to redistribute hundreds of billions of dollars to poor and developing countries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s beloved $1.75 trillion dollar spending bill will be a gift to climate change activists everywhere by giving up to $555 billion in \u201cclean energy investments.\u201d The climate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}