"President Biden on Tuesday nominated Julie Su to be the next labor secretary after Marty Walsh announced his resignation from the role to lead the National Hockey League’s players union.
If confirmed by the Senate, Su would face a major challenge: a shortage of workers in the clean-energy industry that threatens to derail the administration’s ambitious climate agenda.
“There is definitely a labor shortage,” Chynna Hampton, equity director for Climate Jobs Illinois, told The Climate 202. “It’s really hard to get out there and find those talented folks.”
Climate Jobs Illinois, an affiliate of the Climate Jobs National Resource Center, is a coalition of labor organizations advocating for well-paying union jobs in the clean-energy sector, including wind turbine technicians, solar panel installers and nuclear plant engineers."
Maxine Joselow reports for the Washington Post with Vanessa Montalbano March 3, 2023.
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