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Related article<\/span> Biden administration bans drilling in nearly half of Alaska petroleum reserve in sweeping win for climate advocates<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Biden will also announce new action on the federal Climate Corps \u2013 a workforce training and service initiative aimed at preparing young Americans for jobs in clean energy and climate resilience. The government will ease Climate Corps members\u2019 transition to other federal jobs after they graduate from the program. <\/p>\n
He also plans to announce a new partnership between the administration and TradesFutures, the non-profit arm of the North America\u2019s Building Trades Unions, allowing Climate Corps members to access some of the union\u2019s apprenticeship programs. <\/p>\n
He\u2019ll also tout an announcement from three states \u2014 Vermont, New Mexico and Illinois \u2014 launching their own state-based climate corps. Climate corps programs will employ people doing conservation work, as well as work constructing renewable energy like wind and solar. <\/p>\n
Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks in Virginia\u2019s Prince William Forest Park, a site developed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s Civilian Conservation Corps, on which the American Climate Corps is modeled. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn the midst of a depression, President Roosevelt called on the American people to come together, to take on the challenge and unlock the opportunity that sat inside of that\u2013 the opportunity to heal, to lift folks up, and to move America forward,\u201d White House National Climate Adviser Ali Zaidi said Friday. \u201cPresident Biden will talk about how the United States, in the face of a climate crisis fully manifest to the American people in communities all across the country, is also an opportunity for us to come together.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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