Biden Tells Unions That His Clean Energy Agenda Will Bring Jobs

President Joe Biden defended his administration’s clean energy agenda, saying it would help create jobs in the US in the face of skepticism from union allies.

“A lot of my friends in organized labor know when I think climate, I think jobs. I think union jobs,” said Biden at an event Thursday in Philadelphia.

Biden spoke at the Philly shipyard at a steel-cutting ceremony for the Acadia, a vessel which Great Lakes Dredge and Dockwill use to help build offshore wind farms. The speech was the latest in a series of events Biden has held outside Washington, DC, to ...