If you were wondering why AOC was holding hands with Joe Biden? Why she keeps playing ball with Congressional leadership (including Mike Johnson)?
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 24, 2024
It’s because she just got the Green New Deal!
Joe Biden just announced the Climate Corps (20,000 new federal agents) to police and… pic.twitter.com/hwH5OBoX7z
President Biden on Monday announced the first set of jobs under the banner of his American Climate Corps, promising that many of them will be able to quickly transition into federal agency positions. Read spies for Big Green.
In his Earth Day speech at a National Park Service site in northern Virginia, Biden said nearly 2,000 positions across on the newly launched ClimateCorps.gov are now open for applications.
Agencies throughout government worked with organizations to set up the roles and the White House promised 20,000 young Americans will eventually find positions through the new initiative that Biden established last year. The positions will include solar installation, mangrove restoration and air quality monitoring.
Biden touted that recent reforms to the Pathways Program—the primary forum for federal internships—will enable ACC members to more quickly and easily transition into permanent agency roles. Those changes will allow participants to credit their service toward the work hours needed to qualify for certain federal positions through the “recent graduates” part of the program.
“When you finish your term of service, you’ll be eligible for federal government jobs related to climate and energy,” Biden said.
The SEI’s Climate Corps© is a cost-effective, bridge-to-career fellowship program that recruits and places rising climate professionals to implement climate change mitigation and resiliency projects.
Partner organizations receive the support of qualified, passionate, dedicated Fellows, who gain real-world expertise in sustainability project implementation. Through Climate Corps, we simultaneously help organizations address climate and sustainability projects and cultivate the next generation of environmental leaders.