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Published: 29 April 2021 29 April 2021

After Killing Thousands Of Energy Jobs, President Biden Lays Out Wildly Unrealistic and Alarmingly Dishonest Climate Goals

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 29, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last night, President Joe Biden delivered his first address to Congress to mark his first 100 days in office and continued to push unrealistic and dishonest climate policies. Again, the president promised to achieve net zero electricity production by 2030, a goal that is not realistic and ignores the fact that renewable sources of energy also produce emissions. Last week, President Biden spoke with world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, at a virtual climate change summit to push its agenda for the U.S. to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement and its unrealistic goal of cutting emissions 50 percent compared to 2005 levels by 2030.

"The first 100 days of the Biden Administration have been a gift to the radical left and a blow to America's fossil fuel workers," said Daniel Turner, Executive Director of Power the Future. "On day one, the President put 11,000 Americans out of work by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline. Since then he has essentially halted fracking, tried to choke off energy production on federal land, and presided over a 20 percent increase in gas prices. The climate goals that President Biden laid out last night are unrealistic, unachievable, and dishonest with the American people."

Immediately after President Biden was inaugurated, he assembled a climate change team including John Kerry and Gina McCarthy who feel mandated to disassemble a key component of the American economy during the middle of an economic calamity. President Biden immediately killed thousands of jobs with the stroke of his pen when he canceled the Keystone XL pipeline. The decision drew bipartisan condemnation.

Then, last month, the Biden Administration announced its "infrastructure" plan, which includes $174 billion for electric vehicle incentives and new charging stations, $100 billion to update the power grid with more renewable sources, $46 billion for the federal government to buy electric vehicles, and $35 billion to research and development of green technology. Additionally, the package includes a clean electricity standard, which mandates a certain percentage of zero-carbon electricity generation. Sadly, less than 1 percent of this spending plan would go to helping fossil fuel workers who are displaced by the Biden Administration's climate policies, like canceling the Keystone XL pipeline.

—Power the Future