Build Back Better

President Biden signed an executive order requiring the federal government to reduce emissions from its buildings,vehicles and operations.

With it, the administration seeks to transform how thegovernment builds, purchases and operates while supportingthe growth of the domestic clean energy and clean technologyindustries.

President Lonnie Stephenson cheered the Dec. 8 announcement.

Modernizing the electric grid. Decarbonizing transportation. Investing in the future. Good job opportunities for Americans.

With the stroke of the pen, alongside more than 10 IBEW members and a bipartisan group of lawmakers at the White House on Nov. 15, President Biden made official one of the biggest infrastructure investments in U.S. history.

Its size and scope ensures that it will rebuild both the country’s weakened infrastructure and the middle class. Touching nearly every sector of the U.S. economy, the bill was touted on a level comparable to the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the late 19th century and the interstate highway system in the 1950s.