The following report is by the Associated Press (excerpts):
President Joe Biden announced the federal funding Tuesday during a visit to the city’s main port, saying the money will improve and electrify port infrastructure at 55 sites nationwide while supporting an estimated 40,000 union jobs, reducing pollution and combating the climate crisis. The presidential visit, a week before Election Day, was intended to highlight efforts by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to promote clean energy while protecting and creating jobs.
“Ports are the linchpin to America’s supply chain,” Biden said in a speech at Dundalk Marine Terminal, near the site of the March 26 bridge collapse that closed commercial shipping traffic for nearly three months. A small blue and white sign near the site reminded passersby, “Project funded by President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act,” the 2022 law approved with only Democratic votes.
While the grant announcement appeared timed to help Harris’ campaign for president, Biden seemingly ignored those concerns as he followed Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore to the outdoor podium, flanked by metal ship containers. “I think he may be the best governor in the country,” Biden said of Moore, bypassing a chance to praise Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
The Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest on the East Coast, is a major hub for the import and export of motor vehicles and farm equipment. More than 20,000 workers support port operations, including unionized longshoremen and truckers.
The Baltimore port and others across the country “keep goods moving — keep the economy strong,″ Biden said. “And they employ over 100,000 union workers, from Teamsters to longshoremen. But for too long, they’ve run on fossil fuels and aging infrastructure, putting workers at risk and exposing nearby communities to dangerous pollution.″
The new funding will help ports and communities across the country cut operating costs and keep consumer prices down, “while slashing carbon pollution and supporting an estimated 40,000 new, good-paying jobs to support clean energy manufacturing all across America,” Biden said.
“This is about environmental justice,” he added, citing studies that show higher childhood asthma, cancer and lung and heart disease in residents who live near U.S. ports.
Grants announced Tuesday include $147 million for the Maryland Port Administration to buy and install cargo-handling equipment and trucks to transition the port into a zero-greenhouse-gas-emission facility.
John Podesta, senior White House adviser for international climate policy, said the grants will help fulfill a promise by Biden and Harris to “rebuild our nation’s infrastructure and tackle the climate crisis … and uplift the communities who’ve borne the brunt of pollution.”
Read the rest of the report here. To see the full breakdown of expenses, read the White House fact sheet here, and more information on the EPA’s website here.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
At the start of this month when the massive port strike began (and lasted only a few days), I said that that little skirmish would only cause automation to increase even more, and so it appears now that it is.
Of course, we must ignore and dispel all notions that this has anything to do with going green and reducing carbon emissions. The WP has conclusively documented that under the Biden-Harris administration, oil and LNG production and profits tripled, completely bewraying all of Biden’s so-called claims to be decarbonizing and transitioning into renewables. It’s business as usual.
In 2022, I wrote an article that discussed how some of these explicit climate agenda goals involve retrofitting ports with “smart” and “net zero” technology, which could be a contributing factor to increasing shortages and delays in the future. The transportation of goods must slow down, per these insane agendas. When they say they want to reduce carbon, they are referring to us.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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