Kerry says Biden is offering displaced fossil fuel workers ‘better choices’

Published January 27, 2021 7:27pm ET



President Biden’s top climate officials on Wednesday sought to assure that their actions targeting fossil fuel production in order to combat climate change won’t lead to a massive displacement of jobs.

“What President Biden wants to do is make sure those folks have better choices, that they have alternatives,” Biden’s international climate envoy John Kerry said of fossil fuel workers. “They can be the people who go to work to build the solar panels, making them here at home.”

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