American Jobs Plan Overview
Table modified by Hill Heat from the Committee for a Responsible Budget from the White House’s Fact Sheet.
| 10-Year Estimate | |
|---|---|
| Invest in Transportation Infrastructure | $621 billion |
| Invest in Electric Vehicles (EV), including consumer rebates to purchase EVs, grants and incentives to build 500,000 new charging stations, and replacing and electrifying federal vehicle fleet | $174 billion |
| Modernize bridges, highways, roads, and main streets in critical need of repair | $115 billion |
| Modernize public transit | $85 billion |
| Improve passenger and freight rail service | $80 billion |
| Improve infrastructure resilience by safeguarding critical infrastructure and services, defending vulnerable communities, and maximizing resilience of land and water resources | $50 billion |
| Improve airports | $25 billion |
| Establish dedicated fund for beneficial projects to regional or national economy | $25 billion |
| Improve road safety and establish Safe Streets for All program | $20 billion |
| Establish program to reconnect neighborhoods and ensure new projects increase opportunity | $20 billion |
| Improve ports and waterways | $17 billion |
| Other spending | $10 billion |
| Invest in Domestic Manufacturing, Research & Development, and Job Training Initiatives | $590 billion |
| Provide additional funding for domestic manufacturing, investing in capital access programs, supporting modernizing supply chains, and creating a new financing program to support debt and equity investments | $52 billion |
| Provide additional funding to the National Science Foundation | $50 billion |
| Establish Department of Commerce office to monitor domestic industrial capacity and to fund investments in the production of critical goods | $50 billion |
| Provide funding for semiconductor manufacturing and research | $50 billion |
| Provide funding for workforce development infrastructure and worker protection | $48 billion |
| Support clean energy manufacturing with federal procurement | $46 billion |
| Provide funding to upgrade research infrastructure in laboratories | $40 billion |
| Establish Dislocated Workers Program and invest in sector-based training | $40 billion |
| Provide additional funding for climate change research and development | $35 billion |
| Provide funding for community-based small business incubators and innovation hubs | $31 billion |
| Provide additional funding for research and development to spur innovation and job creation | $30 billion |
| Protect against future pandemics through medical countermeasures | $30 billion |
| Establish regional innovation hubs and Community Revitalization Fund | $20 billion |
| Create centers of excellence that serve as research incubators for HBCUs and MSIs | $15 billion |
| Provide additional funding to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | $14 billion |
| Provide funding for workforce development in underserved communities | $12 billion |
| Provide funding for research and development at HBCUs and other MSIs | $10 billion |
| Provide funding for enforcement of workforce protections | $10 billion |
| Establish Rural Partnership Program | $5 billion |
| Other manufacturing investments | $2 billion |
| Expand Home Care Services and Provide Additional Support for Care Workers | $400 billion |
| Expand access to long-term, home and community-based care services under Medicaid and extend the Money Follows the Person program | $400 billion |
| Clean Energy Tax Credits | ~$400 billion |
| Improve Housing Stock, Modernize Schools and Child Care Facilities, and Upgrade VA Hospitals and Federal Buildings | $328 billion |
| Build over a million energy efficient housing units and eliminate certain zoning & land use policies | $126 billion |
| Provide direct grants to upgrade and build new public schools, with an additional $50 billion leveraged through bonds | $50 billion |
| Provide funding to improve public housing system | $40 billion |
| Establish Clean Energy & Sustainability Accelerator | $27 billion |
| Establish Child Care Growth and Innovation Fund and provide tax credits to encourage businesses to build child care facilities | $25 billion |
| Incentivize the building or rehabilitation of over 500,000 homes for low- and middle-income homebuyers with a Neighborhood Homes Investment Act (NHIA) tax credit | $20 billion |
| Modernize VA hospitals and clinics | $18 billion |
| Improve community college facilities and technology | $12 billion |
| Modernize federal buildings through bipartisan Federal Capital Revolving Fund | $10 billion |
| Invest in Broadband, Electrical Grid, and Clean Drinking Water | $311 billion |
| Purchase 100% carbon-free power for federal buildings. | |
| Establish an Energy Efficiency and Clean Electricity Standard (EECES) of 100% carbon-free power (including nuclear and hydropower) by 2035 | |
| Provide funding to build high-speed broadband, reduce the cost of broadband internet service, and promote transparency and competition | $100 billion |
| Invest in power infrastructure | $100 billion |
| Upgrade and modernize drinking water supplies through grants and low-cost flexible loans to states, Tribes, territories, and disadvantaged communities | $56 billion |
| Replace all lead pipes and service lines | $45 billion |
| Provide funding to monitor PFAS substances in drinking water and invest in rural small water systems & household well & wastewater systems | $10 billion |
| Plug orphan oil and gas wells and cleaning up abandoned mines | $16 billion |
| Remediate and redevelop Brownfield and Superfund sites | $5 billion |
| Establish the Civilian Climate Corps | $10 billion |
| Total | ~$2.65 trillion |
White House Names Environmental Justice Advisory Council Members, First Meeting Tomorrow
Today, the White House announced the members of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC). The advisory council will provide advice and recommendations to the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (soon to be Brenda Mallory) and the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council on how to address current and historic environmental injustices.
The first meeting of the WHEJAC will be held virtually tomorrow, March 30, and will be open to the public.
The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) was established by President Biden’s executive order, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. Biden’s order also established the White House EJ Interagency Council as the successor to the Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group, which was established in 1994 by Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations.
- LaTricea Adams, founder, Black Millennials For Flint, Michigan
- Susana Almanza, founder, People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources, Texas
- Jade Begay, climate justice campaign director, NDN Collective, South Dakota
- Maria Belen-Power, associate executive director, GreenRoots, Massachusetts
- Dr. Robert Bullard, Texas
- Tom Cormons, executive director, Appalachian Voices, Virginia
- Andrea Delgado, goverment affairs director, United Farm Workers Foundation, founding board member, Green Latinos, Washington, D.C.
- Catherine Flowers, founder, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, Alabama
- Jerome Foster II, founder, OneMillionOfUs, New York
- Kim Havey, director of sustainability, City of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Angelo Logan, campaign director, Moving Forward Network, California
- Maria Lopez-Nunez, director of environmental justice and community development, Ironbound Community Corporation, New Jersey
- Harold Mitchell, founder, Regenesis, South Carolina
- Richard Moore, co-coordinator, Environmental Justice Health Alliance, New Mexico
- Dr. Rachel Morello-Frosch, environmental health scientist, Berkeley Public Health, California
- Juan Parras, founder, Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, Texas
- Michele Roberts, co-coordinator, Environmental Justice Health Alliance, Washington, D.C.
- Ruth Santiago, environmental justice lawyer, trustee, EarthJustice, Puerto Rico
- Dr. Nicky Sheats, director, New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, New Jersey
- Peggy Shepard, co-founder, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, New York
- Carletta Tilousi, Havasupai Tribal Council, Arizona
- Vi Waghiyi, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Alaska
- Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte, environmental justice scholar, University of Michigan, Michigan
- Dr. Beverly Wright, executive director, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Louisiana
- Hli Xyooj, Director of Program Strategies, Hmong American Partnership, Minnesota
- Miya Yoshitani, executive director, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, California
The Environmental Protection Agency will fund and provide administrative support for the WHEJAC.
The council will advise on how to increase the government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice through strengthening environmental justice monitoring and enforcement. The duties of the WHEJAC are to provide advice and recommendations on issues including, but not limited, to environmental justice in the following areas:- Climate change mitigation, resilience, and disaster management
- Toxics, pesticides, and pollution reduction in overburdened communities
- Equitable conservation and public lands use
- Tribal and Indigenous issues
- Clean energy transition
- Sustainable infrastructure, including clean water, transportation, and the built environment
- NEPA, enforcement and civil rights
- Increasing the federal government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice
The WHEJAC will complement the ongoing work of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, a federal advisory committee established in 1993 to provide advice and recommendations on EJ issues to the Administrator of the EPA.
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Energy Expert Catherine Wolfram Joins Treasury Department As Climate Economist
Catherine Wolfram, a leading energy economist, has joined the Department of Treasury as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics in the Office of Economic Policy.
Wolfram is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has done real-world research into the outcomes of policies such as rural electrification and weatherization assistance.
In 2019, Wolfram wrote sympathetically about the Green New Deal:“In general, though, I’m very sympathetic to the idea that the US government needs to do a lot more to address climate change, and the GND’s first steps aren’t totally whacky from an economics perspective. I hope Ocasio-Cortez and others succeed in mobilizing interest and putting climate change back in the political spotlight.”
She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1989 and her Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1996, and taught at Harvard before joining Berkeley.
From 2009 to 2018, she was the director of Berkeley’s Energy Institute, a utility and non-profit-funded research initiative.
In 2020, she became visiting faculty at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, an initiative heavily financed by the oil and gas industry.