On Thursday, December 2nd and Friday, December 3rd, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm embarked on a three-state tour across Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts to highlight how the historic climate investments of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda will help lower energy costs, generate good-paying, union jobs and drive down air pollution.
Throughout the trip, Secretary Granholm was joined by U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Ed Markey (MA), U.S. Representatives Lori Trahan (MA-03) and Katherine Clark (MA-05), and local officials including, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee, and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
During this Northeast swing, Secretary Granholm viewed the next generation of clean energy innovations and the workers powering them – including electric vehicle charging infrastructure and offshore wind manufacturing. The trip concluded with a tour of electrification retrofits of a local public school, and a kitchen-table conversation with a Malden, MA homeowner on the benefits of weatherization, underscoring the billions in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that will help drive down utility costs for American families and businesses. It was also an opportunity to underscore the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to the Justice40 initiative, which is aimed at delivering 40% of the benefits from climate investments to frontline and underserved communities.
