National Clean Energy Action Month, 2024, 80365-80366 [2024-22990]

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 192 (Thursday, October 3, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 80365-80366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22990]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 192 / Thursday, October 3, 2024 / 
Presidential Documents

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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.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

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