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John Kerry suggests that tankers fired due to Biden’s policies should make solar panels
White House climate secretary John Kerry recommended on Wednesday that oil and gas workers should dedicate themselves to making solar panels if their jobs were eliminated as a result of the Biden government’s environmental policies. During a press conference at the White House on Wednesday, Kerry, who is serving as the US Presidential Special Envoy for Climate, was asked what his message is for workers who are “seeing the end of their livelihoods” as a result of President Biden’s plan to abandon traditional fuels towards renewable energies. “The President of the United States expressed in all his comments on the climate the need to create new jobs that pay better, that are cleaner,” replied Kerry, emphasizing that Biden intends “to do what needs to be done to deal with this crisis. “” What President Biden wants to do is make sure that these people have better choices, that they have alternatives, that they can be the people who are going to work to make the solar panels, “said Kerry. Kerry noted that clean energy jobs, as a solar technician and a wind turbine technician, were growing rapidly before the pandemic. “The same people can do these jobs,” said the former secretary of state, adding that “coal plants have been shutting down for the past 20 years.” Kerry also lamented that workers in the traditional fuel industries were a “false narrative”. “They were fed with the notion that, in some way, dealing with the climate is at their expense. No, it is not, ”he said, adding that the tribulations of oil and gas workers are due to“ other market forces that are already taking place ”. Biden signed several executive orders on climate change on Wednesday with the aim of reaching the goal of achieving zero net emissions by 2050. Last week, the president reinstated the Paris climate agreement, from which the Trump administration withdrew the United States in 2017 Biden also canceled the license on the Keystone pipeline, a project that would have created about 11,000 jobs in the US this year, according to the Keystone XL website. Many of the workers are temporary workers, but 8,000 are union members. “Today is the climate day at the White House, which means that today is the day of work at the White House,” said Biden at a ceremony at the White House. “In my opinion, we already expect a lot to deal with this climate crisis and we cannot wait any longer. It’s time to act. “Also on Wednesday, former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm testified at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and promised to focus on creating US energy jobs. clean, while moving away from fossil fuels. She cited her time as Michigan governor, saying that “when we focused on providing incentives for job providers to be located in Michigan in the area of clean energy, they came.” she added: “I think it is important that, as we develop fossil fuels, we also develop technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”