Because nothing says “Earth Day” like an industry that relies on slave labor, President Biden is marking the occasion with $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects.
“Today, April 22, as the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced 60 selectees that will receive $7 billion in grant awards through the Solar for All grant competition to deliver residential solar projects to over 900,000 households nationwide,” the EPA stated in a Monday press release. “The grant competition is funded by President Biden’s Investing in America agenda through the Inflation Reduction Act, which created EPA’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.”
The future is solar-powered and all communities deserve to join! ☀️ EPA’s $7 billion Solar for All grants:
Deliver on environmental justice
Save families money
️Create good-paying jobsLearn more ⬇️https://t.co/otKsBN42Ig#EarthDay #SolarForAll pic.twitter.com/RpfJMouR7F
— U.S. EPA (@EPA) April 22, 2024
According to Green.org, “The production of solar panels requires the extraction of materials like silicon, silver, and aluminum. The mining and processing of these materials pose significant environmental consequences, including habitat destruction, soil erosion, water pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.”
In October, The Heritage Foundation reported, “Roughly 80% of solar components are manufactured in China using slave labor.”
“Not only have the buyers of solar panels been indirectly funding companies that use slave labor,” the outlet stated, “but American taxpayers have also subsidized almost $37 billion in purchases between 2016 and 2022.”
“Today we’re delivering on President Biden’s promise that no community is left behind by investing $7 billion in solar energy projects for over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan in the agency’s press release. “The selectees will advance solar energy initiatives across the country, creating hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs, saving $8 billion in energy costs for families, delivering cleaner air, and combating climate change.”
The EPA “estimates that the 60 Solar for All recipients will enable over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities to deploy and benefit from distributed solar energy,” according to the agency. “This $7 billion investment will generate over $350 million in annual savings on electric bills for overburdened households.”
“The program will reduce 30 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions cumulatively, from over four gigawatts of solar energy capacity unlocked for low-income communities over five years,” the EPA promises. “Solar and distributed energy resources help improve electric grid reliability and climate resilience, which is especially important in disadvantaged communities that have long been underserved.”
The Earth will be pleased to know that America’s unions are benefitting from Biden’s green agenda.
“Solar for All will deliver on the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to creating high-quality jobs with the free and fair choice to join a union for workers across the United States,” the EPA states. “This $7 billion investment in clean energy will generate an estimated 200,000 jobs across the country. … At least 35% of selected applicants have already engaged local or national unions, demonstrating how these programs will contribute to the foundation of a clean energy economy built on strong labor standards and inclusive economic opportunity for all American communities.”
And, of course, only certain Americans will benefit from Biden’s generosity.
“The Solar for All program also advances President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, which set the goal that 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal climate, clean energy, affordable and sustainable housing, and other investments flow to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution,” the EPA release reads. “All of the funds awarded through the Solar for All program will be invested in low-income and disadvantaged communities.”
On X, few were impressed with the announcement.
Spend spend spend
— Connie Dowd (@ConnieDowd8) April 22, 2024
Where is all this money coming from?
— El Conquistador (@conqu82003723) April 22, 2024
You get a million, you get a million, you get a millionhe is like Oprah and her giveaways from her show
— KC423 (@KerriCapehart) April 22, 2024
“Joe Biden is good for two things,” noted one user. “He loves to spend our tax money and he loves to lie.”
Joe Biden is good for two things. He loves to spend our tax money and he loves to lie. pic.twitter.com/uVw7OtCv7E
— tspot242 (@elitetravelokc) April 22, 2024
Click this link for the original source of this article.
Author: Melissa Fine
This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://www.bizpacreview.com and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact USSANews.com using the email address in the Contact page found in the website menu.