Green Steel Jobs Multiply With Biden Energy Plan, Granholm Says

Jennifer Granholm features prominently as a chief seller of Biden’s climate and economic agenda this election year, crisscrossing the US promising CEOs and workers alike that a clean energy transition can create good-paying union jobs and revitalize manufacturing towns.

The energy secretary’s regular appearances at national labs, transmission line ribbon-cuttings, and in homes that have installed heat pumps and insulation highlight the scope of her agency’s reach and funding prowess following the bipartisan infrastructure law of 2021 and Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The department has hired hundreds of people to dole out some $62 billion ...