Green slush fund grifters and climate change grifters
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Green Slush Fund Grifters.
Climate Change Grifters.
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“President Joe Biden has spearheaded the biggest government investment in renewable energy, clean manufacturing and electric vehicles in history.
Now, with the clock ticking on the final year of Biden’s term, the administration faces the daunting task of putting that climate funding into action.
Two men in the Biden administration oversee programs that will make or break a large part of the President’s climate agenda, leading programs that aim to pump some $286 billion into nearly every aspect of the nation’s energy economy.
Jigar Shah directs the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, which has already approved tens of billions of dollars’ worth of loans and has $217 billion left to spend.
The companies applying for loans want to build renewable and low-carbon power generation, transmission lines to carry that green electricity and innovative approaches for more efficient use of energy.
Jahi Wise directs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
The GGRF has awarded $27 billion to a range of groups that will fund rooftop solar and other clean energy projects in low- and moderate-income communities.
… But both men also face intense scrutiny from budget watchers due to the eye-popping sums they manage and backlash from traditional fossil fuel interests, and the stakes go far beyond politics.
● … Both Wise and Shah stressed the economic benefit of climate action.
● ● ● 》”I am among the folks who see climate change as the existential crisis of our era and also the existential opportunity of our era,” Wise said. …”