Senate Dems Push Biden To Embrace ‘Heat Pumps For Peace’
On Wednesday, a group of Senate Democrats urged President Joe Biden to boost production of fossil fuel-reducing technologies like heat pumps.
The move would also slash “dependence on Russia and other authoritarian petrostates” while addressing the climate emergency, they said.
The demand was delivered in a letter to Biden signed by Senate Democrats.
They wrote that Biden can ramp up manufacturing of clean energy technologies through the Defense Production Act or Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
Lawmakers encouraged the president to “examine all possible routes to support and deploy clean energy and energy-efficient electric technologies.”
This would reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuels by the U.S. and Europe, and Moscow’s economic reliance on those exports.