As President Biden's climate ambitions continue to languish in the Senate, he traveled to the site of a former coal power plant in Massachusetts to announce new funding designed to help communities bear extreme heat.
, the impact of extreme heat is not felt uniformly. In American cities, residents of low-income neighborhoods and communities of color endure far higher temperatures than people who live in whiter, wealthier areas.that will allow states to use program funding to establish cooling centers and defray the cost of cooling equipment for poorer Americans.
"On this site, they will manufacture more than 248 miles of high-tech, heavy-duty cables," Biden said."Those specialized, subsea cables are necessary to tie offshore windfarms to the existing grid." "The partnership will support efforts to provide Americans with cleaner and cheaper energy, create good-paying jobs, and make historic investments in new American energy supply chains, manufacturing, shipbuilding, and servicing," the administration saidBiden's climate remarks Wednesday largely focused on the energy transition as a tool to boost the number of quality, unionized trade jobs while furthering his ambitious climate promises.
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