As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to USD450mn from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to advance clean energy demonstration projects on current and former mine lands. Deploying clean energy projects in mining communities across the nation is key to strengthening rural economies, creating new, good-paying jobs, and reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions that jeopardize public health and pollute local ecosystems. The funding also builds on the more than USD14bn whole-of-government effort by President Biden’s Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities to deliver new economic opportunities to communities hit hardest by our evolving energy landscape—underscoring the President’s deep commitment to ensuring no community is left behind as we build America’s clean energy future.

Source: ESGNews