While President Joe Biden was in Glasgow for COP 26, his Vice President, Kamala Harris was preparing to join Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm at a hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport to announce $127 million in new federal funding for medium and heavy-duty trucks that produce zero carbon dioxide emissions. They also announced a new partnership the Energy Department will forge with HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Cleaning) makers to try to speed up development of electric heat pumps that can operate in colder climates - both key steps to meeting long-term U.S. climate goals. When the US media speculate on a rift between the President and his Vice President they offer as evidence how seldom they appear together in public these days after being inseparable in the early months of the Presidency. Could that just be a natural development of their roles. Yes they were over 3000 miles apart as COP 26 was underway, but they were hand in hand ‘across the pond’ in taking forward the USA’s climate goals.
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CategoriesAuthorAlastair Osborne is always left, sometimes witty and totally Labour
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