Now is the right time to create millions of jobs transitioning to renewable and clean energy.
Create millions of jobs by transitioning to renewable and clean energy.
Occurrences
The Green New Deal tackles both by shifting our country's priority to ensuring high-wage jobs, net-zero emissions in 10 years, clean air and water for all, and much more.
The Green New Deal? Yes No A Green New Deal centered law? Yes No Legislation to create a Polluters Pay Climate Fund whereby fossil fuel companies pay their fair share of the full cost of the carbon pollution they are emitting in order to fund the government response to the climate crisis they helped cause? Yes No Legislation that requires the government to obtain the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous peoples for all decisions that affect indigenous peoples and their traditional territories, honoring all treaties and agreements with indigenous peoples, and protecting and enforcing the sovereignty and land rights of indigenous peoples? Yes No ‘Just Transition’ legislation, specifically, a law that aids in the development of a transition plan to assist workers and communities who may be affected by fossil-fuel plant retirements to ensure that sites are redeveloped and new job opportunities are created while we transition to cleaner, sustainable, and more affordable energy sources? Yes No
Evidence
"led 42 other lawmakers in pressing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to explain why it stripped solar power and backup batteries from Puerto Rican families ... and used the funds to bailout a global fossil fuel company in bankruptcy." The lawmakers said DOE was redirecting the money and warned that a methane pipeline could be substituted for the original solar-and-battery projects.
The page states that the enacted bill "makes drastic cuts to health care, food assistance, student loans, and energy programs" and that it "eliminates incentives for renewable energy." It also says the average utility bill in New York will increase by $140 every year until 2030.
Assessments
Ocasio-Cortez materially pursued the promise through the Green New Deal resolutions and continued pressure for renewable-energy deployment, so she receives an effort badge. But the promised outcome was not fully delivered: the Green New Deal did not become binding federal policy, the United States has not completed a renewable/clean-energy transition tied to millions of actual jobs, and later federal clean-energy investments such as the Inflation Reduction Act represent partial progress rather than fulfillment of the full campaign promise. Recent evidence also points to renewable-energy incentives and programs being cut or contested, reinforcing that the promised outcome remains undelivered.