Presidential Envoy for Climate Kerry: Laid Off Oil and Gas Workers Can Work on Solar Panels

Presidential Envoy for Climate Kerry: Laid Off Oil and Gas Workers Can Work on Solar Panels
Former Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at Chatham House in London, on Nov. 6, 2017. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Special Presidential Envoy for Climate of the Biden administration John Kerry said Wednesday that those workers impacted by the administration’s fossil fuel policy can find jobs in solar panels or other growing industries.

Kerry, who once served as secretary of state for the Obama administration said in a White House briefing that President Joe Biden is doing what is necessary to combat climate change to eradicate the oil and gas and coal industries. And the fossil fuel workers have been “fed a false narrative” that “dealing with the climate is coming at their expense.”