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American Jobs Plan
April 28, 2021 Congress and the Biden administration must invest in modernizing the nation’s power grid to ensure all Americans have access to reliable, affordable, and pollution-free electricity.
COLUMN
April 27, 2021 The enacted American Rescue Plan and the proposed American Jobs Plan should only be the start of the federal government’s bold investments to boost economic growth for all.
REPORT
April 26, 2021 Fulfilling the United States’ mandate to tackle the climate crisis begins with fully funding long-term clean energy investments, as included in President Joseph Biden’s American Jobs Plan.
COLUMN
April 26, 2021 As the Biden administration and Congress pursue ambitious infrastructure investments, they should look to the ocean to build a clean energy future.
How Infrastructure Reform Can Prioritize Ocean Climate Action
April 26, 2021, 9:01 am Getty/Mario Tama
A woman rides on a tour boat as a container ship is offloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Terminal Island, California, March 2020.
Sam Hananel
Ari Drennen
Introduction and summary
Now is the time to invest in the United States’ coastal communities and ocean. Historically, the ocean has been central to the U.S. conception of infrastructure; early cities were built in naturally sheltered bays or on the banks of tidal rivers to provide safe harbors for ships.
1 Today, ocean-based climate solutions have the potential to provide up to one-fifth of the reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions needed globally to limit the world’s temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, which scientists say is necessary in order to lower the risks associated with climate change.
RELEASE: How Infrastructure Reform Can Prioritize Ocean Climate Action
Date: April 26, 2021
Contact: Sam Hananel
Washington, D.C. As the Biden administration and Congress pursue ambitious infrastructure investments that can also tackle the climate crisis, a new report from the Center for American Progress urges officials to look to the ocean as they build a clean energy future.
This report proposes agency-by-agency infrastructure and transportation policies to directly improve ocean health and mitigate the impacts of further development on the ocean and coastal environment.
“A comprehensive infrastructure package that fully incorporates ocean climate solutions would advance the administration’s desire to prioritize economic recovery, racial justice, and sustainable growth that achieves net-zero carbon emissions by midcentury,” said
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