Coal Communities Across the Nation Want Biden to Fund an Economic Transition to Clean Power
The president promised to create a task force on how best to help the communities. Advocates want that and new jobs, broadband internet and funding for health and education.
Coal-state economic development groups, labor leaders and environmentalists are asking President Joe Biden’s administration to fund a “just transition†from coal to renewable energy, given his focus on climate change, environmental justice and racial and economic equity.
Thirteen groups from areas as diverse as West Virginia and Kentucky in Appalachia to the Navajo Nation in Arizona, along with their national partners, want the immediate creation of a White House Office of Economic Transition, focused on rebuilding the economies of coal communities.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26012021/coal-communities-just-transition-renewable-energy-biden-administration/
