Well folks, it looks like President Joe Biden is at it again. On Friday, he’s signing an executive order for federal agencies to start investing more in disadvantaged communities that are affected by pollution and climate change. I mean, it’s about time, am I right? The White House is even creating a new Office of Environmental Justice to coordinate all the efforts across the federal government. And if toxic substances are released, the nearby communities have to be notified. I guess you could say Biden is finally giving pollution the boot.
Get this, Biden is actually going to make the announcement during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. How fancy is that? Word on the street is that he’s going to give some serious side-eye to Republicans who are all about the Big Oil companies. Cause let’s face it, they just love handing them out some tax breaks.
Biden is reportedly saying that his climate agenda is the bee’s knees compared to those Republicans and their “dangerous vision.” I mean, those guys are just trying to make it easier for oil and gas companies to pollute the air we breathe. Have they been inhaling too much of that stuff or what?
Those Republicans aren’t backing down though, they’re all about that oil production. They just want those energy prices down, even if it means weakening regulations. And did you hear about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy? He wants to lift the debt limit for a year and scale back federal spending, which includes repealing those sweet electric vehicle and clean energy tax incentives. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t trust a dude who wants to take away my electric vehicle tax break.
Now, Biden isn’t new to this environmental justice business. He promised at the start of his presidency that environmental justice would be a major deal to him. Heck, he even started the Justice40 Initiative, which requires agencies to give at least 40% of the investments to communities that are burdened by all this pollution. Let’s hope this executive order does some good, or else we’ll just have to crack open a cold one and pretend like this never happened.
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