Biden wants to tackle climate change. His pitch is all about jobs.

Citing climate science, the Biden administration is urging a wholesale transformation of the U.S. economy toward clean energy. Here's why its big proposal is framed around jobs, not environmental alarm bells.

Gina McCarthy has a message. In press briefings and interviews over the past month, the blunt-talking White House national climate adviser – dubbed by some the “Anthony Fauci of the environment” – has repeated the same refrain, again and again.

It isn’t about polar bears, or melting ice caps, or even protecting the Earth for our children and grandchildren....