The White House disputes complaints from radical leftists, who say the bipartisan infrastructure deal does not sufficiently address climate change-related concerns.
On Monday, President Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, addressed complaints lodged by radical climate change activists as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the White House, demanding the administration prioritize Green New Deal initiatives in the infrastructure bill.
“What is your message to climate activists who feel like, ‘Wait a second, we thought that President Biden was going to be the most aggressive president ever on this topic. Why is his first high-profile bill so whittled down?’” a reporter asked the press secretary on Monday.
“I would dispute the notion that it’s — that it doesn’t do anything for climate, which some are arguing,” Psaki responded, citing “key components” which she said would “represent historic investments in areas like addressing the legacy of pollution and cleaning up communities across the country, preventing — that have relied on fossil fuels, and others that have been polluted especially lower-income communities.”
She continued:
It also will take enormous steps in addressing — investing in clean energy transmission. It will include making sure electric vehicle buses are part of our force across the country, and make sure electric — that purchasing electric vehicles will — which would be a huge contributor to reducing greenhouse gas emissions — is something that can be a reality for millions of Americans.
Now, whether or not everyone is aware of all those specifics, that’s incumbent on us to keep conveying that, communicating it, listening, and making sure people understand that this is a down payment. And the President will continue to advocate for, press for, work for even more on the climate, as he will in the reconciliation bill and process, moving forward.
Similarly, Biden penned an op-ed Monday, admitting the bill is “missing some critical initiatives on climate change” but promising to address those in a reconciliation measure while defending the bipartisan infrastructure deal as a “crucial step forward in building our clean energy future.”
“It would make the largest investment in clean energy transmission in American history, modernizing our power grid to accelerate the build-out of zero-carbon, renewable energy,” he wrote, claiming it would replace “thousands of gas-guzzling buses with clean, electric ones — including 35,000 electric school buses”:
And more: The deal would deploy a nationwide network of charging stations for electric vehicles — 500,000 stations in total. It makes historic investments in rail and transit that will get passenger vehicles off the road and reduce fossil fuel consumption.
There’s much more work to do to reach our ambitious climate goals, but the investments in this deal are critical in facilitating our transition to a clean energy economy.
Across the country, we will also strengthen and revitalize our natural infrastructure — our coastlines and levees — while preparing our physical infrastructure for wildfires, floods and other extreme weather events.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is among far-left Democrats who have vowed that there will “not be a bipartisan infrastructure deal without a reconciliation bill that substantially improves the lives of working families and combats the existential threat of climate change.”
“No reconciliation bill, no deal,” he tweeted. “We need transformative change NOW.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is on the same page, promising to effectively blow up the infrastructure deal if it is not paired with a reconciliation bill, which would allow Democrats to pass their far-left agenda items without fear of a GOP filibuster.
Read more at Breitbart
The Sunrise Movement just as stupid and rediculous as the Extinction Rebellion more useful idiots calling for Bigger Government and Globalism
Jen may not directly address it, but she will keep circling back to it.
To be fair, Psaki deserves credit for the sterling work she’s doing rehabilitating the public’s perception of females with fair hair.
Suddenly, ditzy blondes don’t seem so stupid any more…
To understand human caused climate change we must first understand the humans.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/06/27/modern-humans-climate-change/
The radical environmentalist will never be satisfied with any legislation that has a chance of passing. If they hold out for all or nothing, they will get nothing, which is would be good.
The goal of 500,000 stations charging stations for electric vehicles over looks one fact. The average American family can not afford an electric vehicle.
Global Warming/Climate Change the biggist scam in the entire history of all mankind
The most important fact about today’s environmental movement, and the book “Clean Energy Exploitations” explores is that the healthy and wealthy countries of the United States of America, Germany, the UK, and Australia representing 6 percent of the world’s population (505 million vs 7.8 billion) could literally shut down, and cease to exist, and the opposite of what you have been told and believe will take place.
Simply put, in these healthy and wealthy countries, every person, animal, or anything that causes emissions to harmfully rise could vanish off the face of the earth; or even die off, and global emissions will still explode in the coming years and decades ahead over the population and economic growth of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, and Africa.
China (1.4 Billion), India (1.36 billion), Indonesia (270 million), Japan (126 million) and Vietnam (80 million) plan to build more than 600 coal power units, and African countries (1.2 Billion) are planning to build more than 1,250 new coal and gas-fired power plants by 2030.
The book “Clean Energy Exploitations” helps citizens attain a better understanding that just for the opportunity to generate intermittent electricity that is dependent on favorable weather conditions, the wealthier and healthier countries like Germany, Australia, Britain, and America continue to exploit the most vulnerable people and environments of the world today.
The healthier and wealthier countries fail to recognize that at least 80 percent of humanity, or more than 6 billion in this world are living on less than $10 a day, and billions living with little to no access to electricity, These poor folks need abundant, affordable, reliable, scalable, and flexible electricity while The healthier and wealthier are pursuing the most expensive ways to generate intermittent electricity from breezes and sunshine.