‘Green’ jobs in Biden’s infrastructure bill: What they could pay and how to be eligible

‘Green’ jobs in Biden’s infrastructure bill: What they could pay and how to be eligible

A priority of President Joe Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure and climate change bill, called "The American Jobs Plan," is to "tackle climate change with American jobs and American ingenuity," Biden said when he promoted his plan in Pittsburgh on March 31.For instance, it includes $174 billion in spending to "win" the electric vehicle market globally. It also proposes spending $100 billion to "reenergize America's power infrastructure," which includes money to plug old oil and gas wells, to clean up abandoned mines and to build 10 facilities to demonstrate "carbon capture retrofits for large steel, cement, and chemical production facilities."Spending authorized by the bill would "protect our community from billions of dollars of damage from historic super storms, floods, wildfires, droughts, year after year, by making our infrastructure more secure and resilient and seizing incredible opportunities for American workers and American farmers in a clean energy future," Biden said.Here's a look at how many green jobs are going to be created, what kind of jobs they will be, how much they will pay and what you might need to get hired.

Millions of 'green' jobs could be created

Between 1 million and 1.2 million jobs per year would be generated in the energy