Climate Politics
Biden Creates American Climate Corps for Youth Job Training
The program will hire more than 20,000 people in its first year to learn green job skills like clean energy technologies and wildfire prevention.
Joe Biden
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The White House unveiled a new program on Wednesday that will put young people to work staving off the climate crisis, meeting a longstanding demand of many environmental activists.
Modeled on the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, the new American Climate Corps will recruit more than 20,000 people in its first year to conserve and restore lands and waters, build out clean energy and strengthen community resilience, Ali Zaidi, the White House’s national climate adviser, told reporters on Tuesday.