At Climate Week, President Biden Makes the Climate and Economic Stakes of this Election Clear 

Washington, D.C. — Today, while speaking at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum event at Climate Week, President Biden made the stakes of this election clear: climate progress and our clean energy economy are on the ballot. The Biden-Harris administration has spurred historic economic growth while taking more climate action than any other administration in history — and Donald Trump wants to kill this progress and make his Project 2025 plan law of the land so his Big Oil donors can profiteer and pollute. As Vice President, Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to triple clean energy production, creating more than 330,000 good-paying clean energy jobs and lowering energy costs for working families. 

In response to President Biden’s remarks, Climate Power Executive Director Lori Lodes released the following statement: 

“President Biden and Kamala Harris met the challenge of our lifetime head-on — delivering boldly on climate by passing the landmark clean energy plan, which has transformed our country and tripled clean energy investments. Made-in-America manufacturing is back and with it hundreds of thousands of jobs, energy costs are coming down for families, and our communities are safer because our air and water are cleaner. Donald Trump’s climate denial makes every single one of us less safe and sentences future generations to a dirtier and more dangerous planet. We cannot go back.” 

The Biden-Harris Administration’s historic climate action is investing in the economy, our communities, and our future: 

• The clean energy plan tripled clean energy production, creating more than 330,000 good-paying clean energy jobs and lowering energy costs for families. 
• The Investing in America agenda has catalyzed over $900 billion in private-sector investment in clean energy and manufacturing.
• In 2023, clean energy jobs grew at double the rate of job growth across the rest of the economy, and unionization rates in clean energy jobs passed the rest of the energy sector. 
• More than 3.4 million American families benefitted from $8.4 billion in tax credits to lower the costs of clean energy and energy efficiency upgrades to their homes during 2023.
• The Biden-Harris Administration has launched over 1,700 projects to expand access to clean drinking water, replace lead pipes, improve wastewater and sanitation infrastructure, and remove PFAS pollution in water. 
• The Biden-Harris Administration’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund will reduce or avoid up to 40 million metric tons of harmful pollution annually over the next seven years. 

Donald Trump and his MAGA congressional Republican buddies are deadset on reversing this progress. Donald Trump has pledged to repeal the clean energy plan, and MAGA congressional Republicans have voted to repeal the clean energy plan 51 times.