{"id":31147,"date":"2023-10-15T17:03:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T23:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/president-joe-biden-to-visit-colorado-on-monday-spotlighting-clean-energy-investments\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T23:03:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T23:03:42","slug":"president-joe-biden-to-visit-colorado-on-monday-spotlighting-clean-energy-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/president-joe-biden-to-visit-colorado-on-monday-spotlighting-clean-energy-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"President Joe Biden to visit Colorado on Monday, spotlighting clean energy investments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Joe Biden waves to the crowd after speaking at the 2023 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta)<\/span>Manuel Balce Ceneta<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Investing in America tour is expected to take him to Pueblo, which is in Colorado\u2019s 3rd Congressional District, to tour CS Wind, the largest wind turbine tower manufacturing plant in the world.<\/p>\n

The visit will highlight the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden\u2019s signature climate, tax and health care bill signed into law in August 2022, and the Administration\u2019s economic policies are benefiting the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President will highlight how Bidenomics and the Inflation Reduction Act are mobilizing companies to invest in clean energy industries and create good-paying jobs in places like CO-03, while extreme House Republicans try to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act and deny their constituents the jobs and opportunities that the President\u2019s agenda is creating,\u201d a White House official said.<\/p>\n

During the Biden Administration, companies have announced $5 billion in investments in Colorado, in industries ranging from clean energy to semiconductors and biomanufacturing.<\/p>\n

In Pueblo, CS Wind made a $250 million investment to expand its facility, spurred by the Inflation Reduction Act. The expansion is expected to add about 850 jobs in Pueblo.<\/p>\n

CS Wind has hosted elected officials before, including Gov. Jared Polis and Sen. Michael Bennet.<\/p>\n

While all of Colorado\u2019s Democratic members of Congress voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, Boebert and Colorado\u2019s other GOP Congress members, Ken Buck and Doug Lamborn, did not. Boebert has described the law as \u201ca massive failure\u201d on X, the site formerly known as Twitter<\/p>\n

At a stop in New Mexico in August designed to highlight the law and other aspects of the administration\u2019s economic record, Biden foreshadowed his Colorado visit when he dinged Boebert for not supporting the legislation even as it benefited her district.<\/p>\n

\u201cCS Wind is Congresswoman Lauren Boebert \u2013 you know, the very quiet Republican lady? \u2013 it\u2019s in her district,\u201d Biden said. \u201cWho, along with every other Republican, voted against this bill. And it\u2019s making all this possible. And she railed against its passage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenting about Biden\u2019s visit on X, the right-wing Boebert asked if he\u2019d address high prices, talk with oil and gas workers or families affected by fentanyl. \u201cIf he\u2019s not here to address these serious issues, perhaps he should stick to what he does best \u2013 relaxing on the beach and doing nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least one other project in the district is also benefiting from the Inflation Reduction Act. Primergy is building a 155 megawatt solar power and battery storage project in the southwest corner of the state outside Durango.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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