“There’s an argument that’s been around for a long time, that somehow the economy and the environment are at odds and we can’t do two things at once,” says Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, an organization of business groups focused on environmental action. “What we’re seeing today is that there’s never been more clarity […]
Lt. Gen. John Castellaw USMC (Retired) is a third-generation farmer on his family farm near Crockett Mills, Tennessee. He remains involved in national security issues, serves on several boards and advocates for a strong national defense. Nicole Lederer is chair and co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), an advocacy and communications platform for business leaders to advance strong […]
Job boards like the one that Renewable Energy Vermont has launched will be important to connect newly qualified workers with jobs, said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, an environmental advocacy group that tracks clean energy workforce trends. But their impact will be limited without more investment in training workers who don’t yet have the […]
“Right now, there are about three million people who work in clean energy in America,” said Bob Keefe, the executive director of E2. “That’s three times the number of people that work in fossil fuels. It’s also more people than work as bankers, as real estate agents, as farmers in America.”
There has been an uptick in Energy Transition activity in Houston over the past several years. Currently, Houston boasts at least 100 solar energy-related companies and 30 wind energy-related companies. Environmental Entrepreneurs ranked Houston seventh among the top 50 U.S. metro areas for clean energy employment in the fourth quarter of 2019, with 1.9 percent […]
“…like the rest of or most of the economy in the United States, clean energy took a pretty big hit last year. Clean energy jobs fell for the first time since we’ve been tracking them nationally dropping about 307,000 jobs nationally.” But according to E2’s Clean Jobs in America 2021 report, data indicates that clean energy […]
As the Oregon Legislature considers House Bill 2021, which will ensure 100% clean electricity through ambitious but achievable targets for reducing and eventually eliminating greenhouse gas emissions, 45 Oregon private sector executives, investors, entrepreneurs, and other business professionals signed onto this E2 letter in support of the proposal.
Clean energy jobs increased by about 2% in 2019 and 4% in 2018, according to a report from Environmental Entrepreneurs, a national, nonpartisan group of business leaders, investors, and professionals. Building on those gains, for Biden to create just one million new clean energy jobs in his first four years, there would need to be […]
Yet while fossil-fuel companies likely will be hobbled by more restrictions, the industry’s production and jobs will be replaced by clean energy, resulting in a wash for the economy over time, Coglianese says. A report by the nonprofit Environmental Entrepreneurs says clean energy already employs nearly three times as many workers as does fossil fuel […]
WASHINGTON, DC – During his address to Congress on Wednesday night, President Biden is expected to speak about his American Jobs Plan that promises to create millions of good-paying clean energy jobs with investments in infrastructure, clean vehicles and climate action. Following is a statement from Bob Keefe, executive director of the national nonpartisan business […]
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed today to re-establish the authority California and 13 other states to set emissions standards for cars and light-duty trucks sold in their states. The move comes a little over three years after the Trump administration’s EPA first announced it would weaken Obama-era car standards. E2 was the first […]
At the same time, many businesses and utilities recognized that the broader economy was heading toward renewable sources of energy, in large part because wind- and solar-generated energy has become much cheaper than energy generated from fossil fuels. There are about 3 million clean energy workers in America, according to the latest annual jobs report […]