Biden Touts More Taxpayer Money for Climate Initiatives While Celebrating More Potential OSHA Regulations

President Joe Biden announced a slew of new climate spending programs and regulations, citing the recent heatwave in New England as evidence of climate change, while using the announcement to criticize Republicans.

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“Despite the severe impacts of extreme weather events, Republicans in Congress continue to deny the very existence of climate change and expose their constituents to health and safety dangers,” said President Biden.

The announcement includes nearly $1 billion in taxpayer funding spread over hundreds of climate projects, along with the possibility of new regulations from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA).

The new OSHA regulations would impose various requirements on employers and workers, which would add to the already existing mountain of regulations imposed by the unelected organization.

If the new regulations go into effect, employers will need to identify “heat hazards,” develop official plans for employees with “heat sickness,” and provide shade and water breaks.

New employees would also have to undergo additional training on extreme heat and would be subject to “heat acclimatization.”

It is unclear what temperatures count as extreme heat for OSHA, or whether the regulations would apply to all American workers merely working outside in the summer, but Biden claimed that the rules would affect 36 million workers.

OSHA, which is often disliked by workers and employers alike for its strict and often inconvenient regulations, was previously used by the Biden Administration to impose a COVID vaccine mandate on all workers at companies with over 100 employees.

That regulation was eventually overturned in the Supreme Court before it could go into effect.

In addition to the OSHA regulations, Biden also announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be handing out funding which will be split between 656 climate related projects across the country.

One of those projects includes $724,000 to install shaded bus stops in Washington DC to prevent people from getting too hot while waiting for public transportation.