Biden Administration Accelerates Clean Energy Efforts Amid Climate Warnings and Calls for Broader Investment in Equity.

The Biden administration has used the Defense Production Act to expedite manufacturing of heat pumps, backed by $169 million in federal funding. The world likely exceeded the 2°C warming threshold for the first time on record, according to a report by the Guardian. Wealthy nations are likely to have fulfilled their 2020 goal of giving $100 billion to developing nations for climate projects, the report finds. The Treasury Department has issued guidance for a new tax credit that could help struggling offshore wind projects and can be used for necessary transmission lines and grid components. Advocates urge the Biden administration to expand its fast-tracked transmission, solar and storage permitting rules to geothermal, carbon capture and other clean energy projects. A report on Los Angeles’s clean energy transition also finds that the city is not adequately investing in electric vehicle chargers, rooftop solar and efficiency improvements for low-income and non-white communities.