Lopez: Clean energy rhetoric ignores labor inequity
Feb. 5, 2021
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Training unemployed oil workers to learn clean energy skills doesn’t happen just with the signing of an executive order. At MIAT College of Technology in Houston, a program to become a wind power technician takes seven months to complete.Steve Gonzales /Staff photographer
President Joe Biden’s executive orders on energy include admirable initiatives: halting new oil and natural gas leasing on public lands and offshore waters, a review of federal oil and gas programs, and expanding jobs in clean energy.
“This is a case where conscious and convenience cross paths, where dealing with this existential threat to the planet and increasing our economic growth and prosperity are one (and) the same,” he said at a news briefing last week.