Presidential Document2024-22990
National Clean Energy Action Month, 2024
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October 3, 2024
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September 30, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 192 (Thursday, October 3, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22990]
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Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 192 / Thursday, October 3, 2024 /
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Proclamation 10823 of September 30, 2024
National Clean Energy Action Month, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
When I think of clean energy, I think of good-paying
jobs for American workers. Our Nation is leading the
fight against the existential threat of climate change
all while growing our economy and transitioning this
country to a clean, reliable, and affordable energy
future. During National Clean Energy Action Month, we
recommit to investing in America and American workers
as we build a cleaner, more energy secure future.
Since day one of my Administration, in partnership with
Vice President Harris, I have been committed to
building a clean energy economy that creates good-
paying and union jobs for American workers. That is why
my Investing in America agenda is making the most
significant investment in climate and clean energy in
history. That investment has helped America unleash a
clean energy manufacturing and deployment boom--
attracting more than $426 billion in private sector
investment commitments. It has also created more than
330,000 new jobs according to independent estimates.
These investments are disproportionately going to
places that have been left behind--including historic
energy communities that have powered this Nation for
generations and to workers who do not have a 4-year
college degree.
We are also making investments that help ensure our
clean energy future will be built here in America--by
American workers. My Inflation Reduction Act is
delivering on my commitment to be the most pro-worker,
pro-union President in history. For the first time
ever, we are attaching strong labor protections and
incentives to climate and clean energy tax credits. My
Administration finalized a rule through the Inflation
Reduction Act incentivizing companies to pay clean
energy workers a prevailing wage and employ registered
apprentices. These provisions help ensure jobs building
wind farms, installing solar panels, and constructing
hydrogen and carbon capture facilities will be good-
paying and support proven pathways into the clean
energy industry that allow workers to earn while they
learn. Outside estimates suggest the Inflation
Reduction Act could help create as many as 1.5 million
jobs over the next decade. And I launched the American
Climate Corps to train this next generation of clean
energy, conservation, and resilience workers.
My Administration is making significant progress toward
our ambitious goals of securing 100 percent clean
electricity by 2035 and achieving net-zero emissions by
2050. That is in no small part due to our Inflation
Reduction Act's tax credits and rebates, which families
can use to install solar panels, buy energy-saving
appliances, get heat pumps, and purchase American-made
electric cars. Not only will this law help triple wind
power generation and increase solar production eight-
fold by 2030--tens of billions of dollars will go to
the pockets of American families. And through Federal
programs like the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance
Program, we are lowering Americans' energy bills and
making millions of homes safer and more energy
efficient.
But there is still so much more to do to ensure that we
are leading American industries into the 21st century
and tackling climate change. That is why
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my Administration made the largest investment in
America's power grid ever--making it more resilient to
severe weather, laying new transmission lines, and
upgrading existing infrastructure so clean and
affordable energy can reach every corner of the
country. At the same time, we are speeding up
permitting for clean energy and transmission projects
while implementing new emissions standards to reduce
pollution from oil and gas producers, power plants, and
vehicles--which will save American lives, improve the
well-being of our people, and save tens of billions of
dollars in healthcare costs.
Across the country, Americans are writing the next
chapter in our Nation's clean energy future--they are
getting shovels in the ground and working hard in good-
paying jobs all while supporting their families and
restoring pride to their communities. During National
Clean Energy Action Month, we celebrate all the
progress in clean energy, and we recommit to coming
together to secure the future of clean energy here at
home.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 2024
as National Clean Energy Action Month. I call upon all
Americans to explore whether new tax credits and
rebates can help them lower emissions and save money on
energy bills, cars, and home upgrades, and to recognize
this month by talking to neighbors, friends, and
coworkers about opportunities to address the climate
crisis, and working together to mitigate climate change
and achieve a healthier environment for all.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirtieth day of September, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
ninth.
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