Yesterday, as part of President Biden’s historic climate agenda, Vice President Kamala Harris and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan announced $20 billion in awards to expand access to clean energy and climate solutions and lower energy costs for communities across the nation. This investment, made possible by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, will stand…
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Building a Thriving Clean Energy Economy in 2023 and Beyond: A Six-Month Update
Heather Boushey, Chief Economist, Investing in America Cabinet Justina Gallegos, Deputy Director for Industrial Innovation, Office of Science and Technology Policy This represents an updated version of the original December 2023 publication here. In 2021 and 2022, President Biden signed into law his Investing in America agenda, a series of strategic public investments in industries…
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G7 Clean Energy Economy Action Plan
We, the leaders of the G7, are acting and enhancing cooperation to address the climate crisis and accelerate the global clean energy transition to reach net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to the Paris Agreement. We recognize that public and private investment in the industries of…
U.S.-Canada Joint Statement on the Extension of the Bilateral Energy Transformation Task Force
Canada and the United States are pleased to announce the renewal of the bilateral Canada-U.S. Energy Transformation Task Force (ETTF) for an additional year. In August 2022, President Biden set the United States, and the world, on an ambitious new course to grow the clean economy and create good jobs by signing the Inflation Reduction…
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Ten-Year Partnership with Tribes & States to Restore Wild Salmon, Expand Clean Energy Production, Increase Resilience, and Provide Energy Stability in the Columbia River Basin
Historic Agreement Honors Tribal Treaty Rights, Addresses Long-Running Litigation Against the Federal Government’s Operation of Dams in the Columbia River Basin WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden-Harris Administration today announced a historic agreement to work in partnership with Pacific Northwest Tribes and States to restore wild salmon populations, expand Tribally sponsored clean energy production, and provide…
Joint Statement on U.S.-EU Energy Security Task Force Meeting
The U.S.-EU Task Force on Energy Security met for the 11th time on October 31, 2023, convened by co-chairs Amos Hochstein, Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security, and Björn Seibert, Head of Cabinet of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, with the participation of Sarah Ladislaw, Special Assistant to the President and Senior…
Bidenomics in Action: Clean Energy Jobs and Investments Taking Hold Across America
Heather Boushey, Chief Economist, Investing in America Cabinet New analyses of data from the Department of Energy, the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), and the U.S. Energy Information Administration show clean energy job growth and record investments in the clean power sector since President Biden took office and enacted his Investing in America…
Readout of the White House Convening on Accelerating Clean Energy Deployment Through Meaningful Community Engagement
President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is making a once-in-a-generation investment in American infrastructure and our clean energy future, which is creating good-paying and union jobs, growing our economy, strengthening energy security, combating climate change, advancing environmental justice, and helping lower costs for families. To deploy these investments, the Biden-Harris Administration has taken historic actions…
Advancing a Circular Economy to Meet Our Climate, Energy, and Economic Goals
By Former Deputy Director for Energy Sally Benson, Principal Assistant Director for Energy Costa Samaras, and Policy Assistant Rachel Reolfi In order to meet our climate goals, we must build an increasingly circular economy—an economy that keeps materials and products in circulation for as long as possible, rather than throwing them away. Both manufacturing new…
