Pollution and create 33,000 jobs. Host his point about where the spent, what is eing done to ensure this money stays in the United States and doesnt fund jobs overseas . Note it is important to that the american recovery and reinvestment act which provided the resources had a buy america clause in it make sure was built inssible the u. S. I will give you an example from the wind industry. Years ago only onequarter a wind omponents for turbine were made in the u. S. Hanks to investments under the recovery act threequarters of the components in turbines are made in the u. S. Last month the Siemens Company which is a Fortune Company to have it was going the largest order ever to build 2 turbines, almost billion, to build at their plant mason, iowa. I believe that will create about 1,000 jobs. Sorry, fort madison, iowa. Hat is an example of where you sort of jump started the industry in 2009 when the credit markets were frozen after the horrible financial crash of 2008 capital ovided some
Billion dollar regulation and was the top priority by osm. In the report, you detail how the director called the former Regulatory Support Division chief to his office and expressed concerns about the leaked job loss numbers and how they could embarrass the president , since he had just delivered the state of the Union Message indicating that jobs would grow in the administration. The report cites and osm official who was the project manager, who quoted the director is telling him that obviously , andhing needs to change he was to figure out a way the assumptions could be changed so the numbers did not look so bad. Another osm employee testified that her impression was that this direction ultimately came from the director. The job lossheard number was going to be hard to overcome. Yet when reporting on your interview with the director regarding changing the baseline he said he did not know who made the decision. Is that even believable . All of theman, things you have just expressed ar
Genuine catastrophe. A huge swath of the country has been hit by winter storms and record low temperatures, below zero across more than a dozen states. Most of texas is on its own energy grid run by the Organization Called the electric reliability of texas. All sorts of interesting idiosyncrasies to how it operates. Its Power Infrastructure is simply not designed to withstand days of freezing temperatures, which are expected to continue until the weekend. Ercot officials said today they expect the black outs in texas to last at least until tomorrow. The crisis is the product of both extreme weather, a kind of black swan event, and also real governing failure. And the person at the head of the texas government took the time to go on fox news last night to push the big lie that republicans and right wing media have been pushing for days, a brazen jawdropping lie that the hippy libs and their clean energy are to blame for the devastation in texas. The Green New Deal would be a deadly deal