2024 is on track to be the hottest year ever on record, another sign of the climate crisis.

The Biden administration wanted to find a way to empower Americans to play their part in combating this crisis by helping to build a clean energy future.

So last year they established a workforce initiative called the American Climate Corps.

Its mission, training people for green jobs.

Thousands of Climate Corps members have been dispatched across the country.

We spoke with some of them.

My name is Josh San Diego.

I am 23 years old, and I am serving American Climate Corps based out of Riverside, California.

My name is Anna Marie Smith. I'm 49 years old. I'm in Los Angeles, California.

My name is Daniel Escobar. I am currently a climate educator at Mile High Youth Corps through the

Energy and Water Program based out of Denver, Colorado.

My name is Richard Hamilton and I am an enrolled tribal Klamath member.

I'm Klamath and Modoc.

I am a crew boss here at Lomacazzi based out of Ashland, Oregon.

My daily work deals with clean energy utilities, sustainability, and project management. And so I've worked on

documents relating to public park lighting retrofits and clean energy vehicle charging.

I'm doing energy assessments, which basically means that I'm changing out like sink aerators,

shower heads, light bulbs to ensure energy and water efficiency.

We do occasionally change toilets to higher efficiency models.

I was learning how to design a solar installation on a residential home.

I learned how to look at a home, look at the roof, assess all the characteristics of a property

being ready for solar.

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