President Joe Biden’s push for a green power revolution could expand the economic benefits of energy production to a significantly broader swath of communities across America — if he can maneuver past the blockade of fossil-fuel-producing states that has prevented congressional action on climate change for years.
Included in Biden’s massive $2 trillion infrastructure package is a provision that would require every state to generate all of its electricity by 2035 from fuels that do not produce any of the carbon emissions linked to global climate change.
Such a transition would trigger a massive spending boom in wind and solar power — at least doubling the pace of investment now underway — and that could disperse opportunity for energy-related jobs across many more states than benefit today, energy experts say. CONTINUED
Ronald Brownstein, CNN
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