{"id":340395,"date":"2024-08-23T08:05:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T06:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340395"},"modified":"2024-08-23T08:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T06:05:56","slug":"here-are-the-green-projects-biden-is-dumping-billions-into-before-he-leaves-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340395","title":{"rendered":"Here are the \u2018Green\u2019 projects Biden is dumping billions into before he leaves office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With its July 22 announcement<\/a> that it is disbursing $4.3 billion in taxpayer-funded grants for an assortment of climate projects around the country, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) secured the loot for grateful recipients before President Joe Biden leaves office in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The money will go to 25 projects across 30 states (some will cross state borders) and will target greenhouse gas emissions from \u201ctransportation, electric power, commercial and residential buildings, industry, agriculture\/natural and working lands, and waste and materials management,\u201d the EPA said in a press release<\/a>. Funds for the grants were provided from the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program anchored in the 2022 misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, the Biden administration\u2019s landmark climate law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier in the month, the Biden Energy Department announced<\/a> it was awarding $1.7 billion to 11 factories to help finance the manufacture of electric vehicles and their components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Biden understands that America needs a strong EPA,\u201d agency Administrator Michael Regan told<\/a> reporters, noting that the administration \u201chas made the largest climate investment in history, providing billions of dollars to state, local, and tribal governments to tackle climate change with the urgency it demands,\u201d The Washington Times reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decarbonization and Its Consequences<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the projects receiving the federal largesse are statewide decarbonization initiatives in Pennsylvania targeting cement, asphalt, and other materials; $307 million for measures in Nebraska to promote \u201cclimate smart\u201d practices ostensibly to reduce emissions from agriculture and waste; and an effort to install EV chargers for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles along a highway on the East Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An air management district in Southern California will receive $500 million to help decarbonize the region\u2019s transportation and freight sectors, including at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. EPA\u2019s grants to the region will provide funding for \u201celectric charging equipment, zero-emission freight vehicles and conversion of cargo handling equipment to lower emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EPA climate grants continue the Biden administration\u2019s practice of throwing taxpayer money at the transition to EVs. And its timing would appear to be a bit off. Unsold EVs continue to pile up on dealer lots across the country, with Ford and GM cutting production of the vehicles and Ford losing over $100,000 on the sale of each new EV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there are the electric school buses. In affluent Montgomery County, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C., an electric bus company that was supposed to deliver hundreds of vehicles to the biggest school district in the state \u201crepeatedly missed delivery deadlines and made late repairs\u201d to its school buses which caused \u201cmillions of dollars in wasteful spending,\u201d The Washington Post reported<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the electric buses that were delivered had to have their batteries replaced and were plagued by high-voltage wiring problems. Citing a report by the Montgomery County inspector general, the Post reported that the school district is now shelling out upwards of $14 million to buy diesel-powered buses thanks to its vehicle deficit. In other words, instead of decarbonizing its school bus fleet, Montgomery County is recarbonizing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montgomery County\u2019s electric school bus fiasco is rooted in the same \u201cfund or mandate it and they will come\u201d mentality underpinning the handouts in the Inflation Reduction Act. In 2022, Maryland lawmakers passed a law aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, including boosting the number of EVs in the state. The law also requires new school buses to run exclusively on electric power \u2014 though some waivers are allowed. Those in charge always know best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryland\u2019s experience with yellow electric school buses is not unlike the giant rotor that recently broke off an offshore wind turbine polluting the beaches of Nantucket, Massachusetts. In both cases, politically favored green technologies failed to live up to their promise. The offshore wind project in New England is subsidized by the same taxpayers who are footing the bill for the grants Biden\u2019s EPA is doling out in the name of combatting climate change. And the electric school buses in Maryland were purchased with taxes extracted from Montgomery County residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ruling class repeatedly claims to protect the masses from whatever \u201cexistential threat\u201d suits their purposes. Time and again, their follies blow up \u2014 usually not in their faces, but in the faces of ordinary people who bear the brunt of their hubris. The billions EPA is spreading around will have no effect on the climate, but it will ensure more precious resources are wasted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared in The Federalist<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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