President Joe Biden will visit Prince William Forest Park in Triangle on Monday to announce $7 billion in awards through the Environmental Protection Agency's Solar for All program and unveil "major steps to advance" the American Climate Corps.
The Earth Day visit, with President Biden set to speak at 2:40 p.m., will focus on the billions in grants through the EPA's Solar for All grant competition. Selectees under the program, according to the White House, will serve every state and territory in the nation and deliver residential solar power to over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities.
The program expects to save households more than $350 million in electricity costs annually – about $400 per household – and avoid more than 30 million metric tons of carbon pollution over the next 25 years, a White House fact sheet states.
Monday's visit marks the president's second appearance in Prince William County in 2024. In January, he hit the campaign trail in Manassas to speak about Democrats' efforts to protect reproductive rights and "restore Roe."
Biden on Monday is also expected to announce several actions to stand up the American Climate Corps – an initiative modeled after FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps that will put more than 20,000 young Americans to work fighting the impacts of climate change while gaining the skills they need to join the clean energy workforce.
Prince William Forest Park is a national park created under FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps and stewarded by the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service.
Under the American Climate Corps programs, Americans can apply through a new website, ClimateCorps.gov. The website will feature nearly 2,000 positions across 36 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, hosted by hundreds of organizations advancing clean energy, conservation and climate resilience.
The Biden-Harris Administration is also announcing a partnership with the North America’s Building Trades Unions’ nonprofit partner TradesFutures. Beginning this summer, every American Climate Corps member will have access to TradesFutures’ industry leading apprenticeship readiness curriculum during their term of service in the American Climate Corps, providing members with the opportunity to be trained in skills necessary for careers in the clean energy economy.
President Biden and former President Donald Trump, a Republican, are locked in a tight rematch in this year's election, according to the latest NBC News national poll. Trump leads Biden by 2 points in the latest poll, down from a 5-point advantage in January.
"Biden bests Trump on the issues of abortion and uniting the country, while Trump is ahead on competency and dealing with inflation," an NBC News report states.
Trump is in New York today for opening arguments of his hush money trial related to payments made to an adult film star to hide an affair. The former president has denied the affair.
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