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New Report Says Biden Energy Policy Is Misleading And Unattainable
Recent Experiences In Three States Provide An Insight Into How Problematic President Joe Biden’s Push For Renewable Energy Could Be For Electric Customers Nationwide.
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Tennessee Below National Average For Renewable Energy Production
Tennessee Has A Long Way To Go To Meet Biden’s Executive Orders To Make The U.S. Carbon Neutral By 2050 With Only 13.9% Of The State’s Power Coming From Renewable Sources.
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Why Biden’s New Dawn Of Net-Zero Is Looking Like A Dark Day For Labor
In all pathways, the vast majority of mines and all coal power plants shutter by 2030, although the coal export business will live on. The ranks of 600,000 natural gas workers fall by more than two-thirds by 2050 in most scenarios. To compensate, the Biden administration pledges that the energy transition will create “millions” of green jobs, but most new jobs will be in the construction of wind and solar farms, which is temporary work and often not in the same regions that provide fossil fuel employment. The pay is significantly lower, too. The median wage for a solar installer is about $45,000 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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