Fact Check: Biden Administration’s Green Jobs Claims Graded ‘Mostly False’
H. Sterling Burnett
February 5, 2021
President Joe Biden and John Kerry, his climate envoy, have said Biden’s recently signed climate change Executive Orders (EO) will create a larger number of better paying jobs in the field of green energy technologies, than the number of jobs that the Biden administration acknowledges will be lost in the fossil fuel industry.
Government data and experience indicate these claims are most likely false.
Biden’s Executive Orders Cost Jobs on Day One
On his first day in office, Biden signed an EO retroactively cancelling the federal permits needed for the completion of the Keystone XL pipeline. Days later Biden signed a second EO placing a moratorium on future oil and gas lease sales on federal lands, and despite saying his drilling ban only applied to future leases, the Department of Interior subsequently revoked 70 existing permits issued in the waning days of the Trump administration.
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