In Dec. 2023, The Department of Labor joined an agreement with the departments of Commerce, Interior, Agriculture, Energy, EPA and AmeriCorps to implement the American Climate Corps. The American Climate Corps (ACC) was created by the Biden-Harris administration to train clean energy, conservation and climate resilience workers. The Memorandum of Understanding joined by the 7 federal agencies laid out the mission, goals, priorities and next steps to implement the Corps. Read the full interagency Climate Corps memorandum.
In Jan. 2025, at the end of the Biden Administration, the ACC announced the end of the program and that its website would no longer be operable but outside reporting stated that the people hired through the program would continue to work on their projects.
When President Trump took office at the end of Jan. 2025, he signed Executive Order (EO) 14154, titled “Unleashing American Energy,” which called for the immediate cancellation of programs, activities, and operations of the American Climate Corps (ACC).