Governor Cooper Signing HB951 Last week, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed HB951 into law, a substantially revised version of a bill that originally included misguided investments in fossil fuel infrastructure and granted too much power to the state’s monopoly utility. The revised bill codifies central elements of the Governor’s Clean Energy Plan, which established targets […]
Climate change is battering America’s businesses — and with it, our entire economy. Last year, weather and climate disasters cost the United States $99 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. International nonprofit CDP estimates climate change will cost businesses worldwide $1.3 trillion in the next five years. And in a survey of 750 business executives […]
An expanded clean energy economy is necessary to achieve the goals outlined in the Colorado GHG Pollution Reduction Roadmap. This transition will require a well-trained, clean energy workforce. Clean energy jobs accounted for half of all new jobs in the U.S. in 2018 and 2019. Even during the pandemic, there was still a 3 percent […]
By E2 Interns: Kai Diep and Andrea Guerra California regulators have a critical opportunity to drive economic growth in the state’s blossoming zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) industry and help achieve state climate targets by advancing a strong Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule with a 100% electric truck sales requirement by 2035. This ambitious yet achievable goal […]
Electric pickup trucks are cool. But when it comes to building a cleaner economy and creating the jobs and other economic opportunities that come with it, so are heat pumps, Energy Star appliances and climate finance, the Biden administration showed this week. While up in Michigan the biggest game-changing electric vehicle since Tesla — the Ford F-150 Lightning — stole the […]
In his address to Congress Wednesday night, President Biden is expected to speak more about how his American Jobs Plan and major investments in infrastructure, clean vehicles and climate action can create millions of good-paying clean energy jobs in every state in America. The speech marks a starting point for members of Congress to get […]
From Day 1 in office, President Biden has taken a “whole of government” approach to climate action. Now, he’s laid out a “whole of economy” approach that promises to turbocharge clean energy, essential infrastructure and the jobs and other economic benefits that come with it. In short, he is addressing recovery today with investments in […]
The 11th hour funding stimulus and spending package from Congress includes some bright spots for clean energy and climate action as we round out an otherwise dark year. It couldn’t come soon enough. American workers and companies are struggling — including those in the business of making our homes, buildings and electricity supplies cleaner. Since the start of […]
By William Barber III & Ethan Blumenthal As the state’s economy looks to recover from COVID-19, the clean energy industry provides an opportunity to both hasten our recovery and address other urgent challenges North Carolinians face, including racial inequity, job growth, job quality and climate change. That’s a lot to ask of a single industry. Fortunately, […]
This year reveals four large & inter-related crises: the Covid pandemic, economic disruption, racial injustice resurfaced, and climate emergencies. Like the best informed and effective leaders, I am trained to engage toward the highest common good. Now we are called to be root cause “students” of the inter-connected 2020 calamities.
Since founding a renewable energy business in rural Jefferson County nearly a decade ago, I’ve been fortunate to work alongside people whose grit, vision and ingenuity has helped our company grow and prosper. Although we started with just two workers, at the time of the coronavirus outbreak we employed about 40 women and men. All […]
Zero-emission trucks are the future, and that fact was made all the clearer recently thanks to the critical leadership of the California Air Resources Board (CARB). E2/Environmental Entrepreneurs has a long history of elevating and amplifying the business voice to decarbonize America’s transportation system, in California and across the country, from low-carbon fuel standards to […]