VIDEO: Budzinski: IRA providing thousands of climate jobs

WASHINGTON (WAND) — The House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) — through the leadership of the SEEC Climate Jobs Task Force — hosted a public roundtable with climate workers who are at the center of America’s clean energy future.

The climate crisis is a monumental challenge that will affect generations of Americans to come. Building a clean energy workforce with good-paying union jobs that can withstand the tests of our rapidly changing world is essential to meeting this critical moment. With the help of the transformational investments from the Inflation Reduction Act, we are training new generations of clean energy workers, building an equitable economy, and leading the world in the fight against the climate crisis.

“The Inflation Reduction Act is hard at work bringing down costs for our families and sparking the creation of good paying union jobs in the trades," said SEEC Climate Jobs Task Force Co-Chair Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D) Illinois. “Today, I was thrilled to join my colleagues on SEEC's Climate Jobs Task Force in bringing together a broad coalition of workers, including from my home state of Illinois, who are benefiting from historic investments in our clean energy economy. I look forward to keeping up our efforts to ensure that our nation's transition to clean energy is powered by the union workers who sustain the American middle class."