Biden Announces <br />New Clean Energy, Executive Actions.<br />Biden Announces <br />New Clean Energy, Executive Actions.<br />President Joe Biden announced the executive actions on June 6.<br />The president authorized the Defense Production Act (DPA) to increase U.S. production of several forms of clean energy.<br />These include U.S. manufacturing of parts for solar energy, insulation, fuel cells and electric transformers.<br />Senior White House officials say that the executive orders come as the effects of climate change continue to mount.<br />What we're seeing is a <br />confluence of the impacts <br />of climate change —, Unnamed Senior White House Official, via CNN.<br />... the droughts out West, for example, reducing the output of our hydropower resources, Unnamed Senior White House Official, via CNN.<br />For two years, anti-circumvention tariffs aimed at solar panels imported from four Southeast Asian nations will be halted.<br />In accordance with the president's declaration, no solar cells or modules imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam... , Unnamed Senior White House Official, via CNN.<br />... will be subject to new antidumping or countervailing duties during the period of <br />the emergency, Unnamed Senior White House Official, via CNN.<br />Solar energy manufacturing heads <br />had mixed reactions.<br />President Biden's decisive leadership enables companies like mine to move forward on stalled projects and bring solar workers back to our jobsite, George Hershman, SOLV Energy CEO, via CNN.<br />Today's proclamation directly undermines American solar manufacturing by giving unfettered access to China's state-subsidized solar companies for the next two years, Samantha Sloan, First Solar VP, via CNN.<br />The suspension of tariffs on solar products received bipartisan support in states with healthy solar industries.<br />[President Biden's announcement is a] positive step that will save American solar jobs, Sen. Jacky Rosen, (D-NV), via CNN
