vokes wagon in china credits from the maker of electric cars and then there are oil companies like b.p. that are keen to dump assets to reduce their carbon footprint it's sold its alaska oil fields to a little known privately held company called hill corps for $4600000000.00 the problem is the world doesn't see a drop in emissions they still exist but a publicly traded company with shareholders and activists has now offloaded verifiable emissions to a company that has little incentive to declare them so this is what we're going to do we'll pick up on carbon trading right after this report from christmas salumi in new york that's where authorities are promising to have 70 percent of their electricity come from renewable sources by 2030 it's one of the most ambitious clean energy plants in the country. in the heart of new york sits the legendary big gallus once the world's largest electric generating unit its owner ries light power now wants to make it the cleanest with plans to build the largest battery facility in the country right here in 2 years a storage facility for renewable energ

i think when it comes to that sense, that's where president biden has kept his vokes, getting peopleand focusing on the economic recovery from pandemic. he has done the other things like you talked about, when it comes to afghanistan, what he has talked about with immigration. climate has been the focus the last 48 hours. as president biden revealed in the first press conference, he says when you're president, timing is everything. you have got to make sure you keep your priorities in order. there have been these crises that have popped up with immigration and guns, but i think overall, far and beyond, his number one effort and focus has been the pandemic and getting out of it. >> kaitlan collins at the white house, thank you. >>> let's talk more about the president's climate summit happening right now. today, biden is making the economic case for his big plans. i want to bring in vanessa yurkevich. president biden is promising to create millions of good paying union jobs. how do these new jobs compare to the fossil fuel jobs he's trying to wind down? >> a green job can be anything f

transportation and infrastructure committee while in congress, and under president trump, russell vokes, especially given the fact that this bill is so broad and does have such a broad definition implied and what actually infrastructure is. >> well, i don't know if i agree with that. i do think that, you know, you have your hard infrastructure, the roads, the bridges, et cetera but you also have to have the other pieces that really support doing infrastructure so, for example, i look at 3 million people who have lost their jobs over the course of the pandemic how do we get them back into the workforce at wages they can take care of their families we do that by training them up for these jobs in the future the energy grid, for example, and all of the green energy components that are in the infrastructure package are really important to where we're going in the 21st century. and so, i actually applaud the biden administration for thinking broadly about how we need to fix what we need to do now. but look into the future >> yeah. russell, i mean, the comments that we just played just now wo