E2 Executive Director, Bob Keefe, writes an op-ed for The Hill, advocating for clean energy despite the Trump administration’s move to roll back car efficiency and pollution standards.
E2 Advocacy Director, Grant Carlisle, is in a GreenTech Media article noting bipartisan support of clean energy despite President Trump’s budget cuts. “Together, Republicans and Democrats voted to support American innovation in energy and vehicle technologies,” said advocacy director Grant Carlisle in a statement.
Greentech Media quotes Grant Carlisle, E2 Advocacy director, in an article on Trump’s infrastructure plan and its lack of attention toward renewables and energy infrastructure. “Grant Carlisle, advocacy director of the national business group Environmental Entrepreneurs, characterized the shortcomings bluntly. “It is unfortunately just not a forward-looking document,” he said.”
The Kansas City Star cites E2’s report, “Opportunity Lost: How Rolling Back the Clean Power Plan Hurt’s America’s Economy,” in an article amplifying the EPA’s “listening session” in Kansas City regarding its proposal to repeal the CPP. “Repealing the CPP would deny Americans the opportunity to create 560,000 jobs and add $52 billion in economic value. […]
E2 is pleased to be an in-kind sponsor for National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) Industry Growth Forum on Thursday, May 3-4, 2018 in Denver, Colorado. For over twenty years, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) Industry Growth Forum has been the nation’s premier clean energy investment event. The Forum features presentations from 30 emerging clean energy companies, provocative […]
Greentech Media quotes Grant Carlisle, E2 Advocacy director, in an article on Trump’s budget cuts and its effects on clean energy programs. Grant Carlisle equates budget cuts to job loss, saying the budget puts “businesses and millions of clean energy workers at risk.” “This budget is cutting costs by refusing to invest in the future,” said […]
E2 worked with these voices (Brooks, Lew, Griffin) to amplify their message against the EPA’s actions on Pebble Mine to DC beltway audiences.
E&E News discusses the current status and issues facing Oregon’s effort to launch a California-style cap-and-trade system. “Those who are opposed just want to buy more time,” said Erik Wohlgemuth, chief operating officer of sustainability nonprofit Future 500, who is lobbying state lawmakers in Salem today with the group Environmental Entrepreneurs. “This has been studied, […]
New Jersey Assemblymember, Andrew Zwicker, writes an op-ed instilling hope in a future in clean energy. Clean energy is already a tremendous job-driver in New Jersey. Three times more New Jerseyans work in solar- and wind-related jobs as do in fossil fuel electric generation. An analysis by ReThink Energy NJ and Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a national, […]
The Trump administration may ask Congress to slash renewable energy and efficiency programs at the Department of Energy by more than 70 percent in the next fiscal year, sparking immediate backlash from environmental groups and lawmakers. Bob Keefe, executive director of the green group E2, said the move amounted to an organized effort to cut “innovation […]
Clean Technica mentions Trump’s mediocre reference to the country’s energy industry during his State of the Union Speech, which was not well received by some of the country’s industry bodies and activists. “Trump’s single-minded vision on energy was on full display tonight,” said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs). “Not only has there […]
WASHINGTON (January 31, 2018) – President Trump’s draft budget proposal for fiscal 2019 would cut funding for the Department of Energy’s programs on renewable energy and energy efficiency by 72 percent. Statement from executive director of E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) Bob Keefe: “Tuesday night President Trump failed to even mention a single clean energy industry. Now he […]