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☆ A federal climate jobs program could hire 20,000 workers this year
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

President Joe Biden this month made climate jobs a major focus of his reelection bid. The administration plans to launch the American Climate Corps this summer with about 20,000 workers, but the funding is pieced together from various federal agencies. These prospective voters are also the target hires for the American Climate Corps, which will focus on reducing greenhouse-gas pollution in local communities and making them more resilient to extreme weather. Stevie O'Hanlon, a spokesperson for the Sunrise Movement, which mobilizes young voters focused on the climate, said the launch of the American Climate Corps was a big win. But the chances of Congress approving more funding for the workforce program are slim, given that House Republicans last year tried to block any federal spending for the American Climate Corps.

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☆ White House announces new steps toward launching its climate corps for young people
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-19 | by ( Lucas Thompson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

US President Joe Biden speaks alongside Ritika Shah, award-winner of the first-ever National Climate Assessment Art x Climate competition, about his administrations actions to combat climate change in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House in Washington, DC, November 14, 2023. The highly anticipated first steps for the American Climate Corps, or ACC, were shared exclusively with NBC News on Tuesday, as the administration seeks to launch the first cohort by next summer. After facing setbacks in Congress, the Biden administration has unlocked funding to launch its American Climate Corps, a new federal program that looks to employ thousands of young Americans in the clean energy, conservation and climate resilience sectors. The White House now hopes to use funds for climate-minded programs across multiple agencies to carry out the vision of the American Climate Corps. Five states — California, Colorado, Maine, Michigan and Washington — have already launched climate corps programs, and the federal program will lean on them as implementing partners.

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☆ Opinion: Trump and the upside-down world
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. CNN —The title on the cover of Cass R. Sunstein’s 2021 book, “This is not normal,” is printed upside down. The beginning of a Trump-backed House Republican inquiry into impeaching President Joe Biden with no clear evidence of his wrongdoing. A last-ditch move Saturday kept federal agencies funded for 45 days while putting more aid to Ukraine in jeopardy. Bill Bramhall/Tribune Content AgencyOn Monday, a New York judge found Trump and his adult sons liable for insurance and bank fraud and canceled the Trump Organization’s business certification.

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☆ Inside the Civilian Conservation Corps, the New Deal agency that employed 2.5 million men to preserve national forests
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Elias Chavez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Biden launched the American Climate Corps to create jobs and address the climate crisis. The program is similar to the Civilian Conservation Corps, a Depression-era work relief plan by FDR. The CCC employed over 2.5 million men in the nine years it existed and planted 3 billion trees. Modeled after President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 Civilian Climate Corps, Biden's program aims to employ about 20,000 young adults. Take a look back into the camps of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Persons: Biden, Joe Biden, Franklin D, Roosevelt Organizations: American, Corps, Civilian Conservation Corps, FDR, CCC, Service

WASHINGTON (AP) — After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program. The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost. Democrats and environmental advocacy groups never gave up on the plan and pushed Biden in recent weeks to issue an executive order authorizing what the White House now calls the American Climate Corps. White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi said the administration will work with at least six federal agencies to create the climate corps and will pair with at least 10 states. California, Colorado, Maine, Michigan and Washington have already begun similar programs, while five more are launching their own climate corps, Zaidi said: Arizona, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina and Utah.

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☆ Biden launches paid program for 20,000 young people to train for green jobs
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The White House on Wednesday announced a program that will aim to train 20,000 young people for climate-focused jobs related to clean energy, land restoration, forest management and more. In addition to training, the program also intends to be a pipeline for participants to get hired into green jobs. In 2021, he proposed spending $30 billion on a Civilian Climate Corps, which would have had over 300,000 members, as a part of the larger Build Back Better Act bill, the framework of Biden's climate agenda. The Civilian Climate Corps appeared to be a modern version of the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, a program for unmarried young men to train for jobs in public land and forest improvement. The White House didn't announce how much it was spending on the program.

Persons: Joe Biden, Lucy Evans Organizations: Interpretive, Wednesday, American, Corps, White, Civilian, Civilian Conservation Corps, Democratic Locations: Palo Alto , California

☆ Microsoft, Kimbal Musk, NBA's Russell Westbrook invest in Brooklyn-based climate tech company BlocPower
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Ian Thomas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The round, which includes more than $24 million in Series B funding, was led by VoLo Earth Ventures. Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Credit Suisse, New York State Ventures, Kimbal and Christina Musk, and NBA player Russell Westbrook also were part of this equity round. The company also raised $130 million of debt financing led by Goldman Sachs, bringing BlocPower's total capital raised to-date to more than $250 million. BlocPower, a two-time CNBC Disruptor 50 company, has focused on improving the energy consumption and efficiency issues that many of the old buildings in the U.S. face. Since its founding in 2014, BlocPower says it has completed energy projects in more than 5,000 households, commercial buildings and houses of worship.

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