Green Jobs? When A Coal Plant Shutters, Communities Are Left Devastated
by Salena Zito 8 hours ago in Green Energy, News and Opinion Reading Time: 4 mins read
The vast divide between the government’s understanding of the needs of the people they serve and the people themselves was never more excruciatingly apparent than it was this past week at a Pennsylvania town hall meeting. [emphasis, links added]
The two-hour event, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency Interagency Working Group Rapid Response Team, was supposed to be for the IWP to answer questions from local residents, elected officials, small business owners, and furloughed power plant employees about the grants they were promised to revitalize their borough after the closure a year ago of a coal-fired power plant.
But the forum ended up being a 100-minute talk from the IWP panelists about how great the interagency was. This left just twenty minutes for over 70 people to try to get a question in.
Sen. Bob Casey announced the formation of the IWP and its Rapid Response Team last fall with a lot of fanfare, with Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Gov. Josh Shapiro, and Biden Administration officials in attendance.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/green-jobs-when-a-coal-plant-shutters-communities-are-left-devastated/
