WASHINGTON – The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis called on the need for investments in the clean energy economy, making it a focal point of the Committee’s Climate Crisis Action Plan released today. If enacted, the Plan would achieve net zero carbon emissions in the U.S. by 2050. Addressing climate change by unlocking […]
Statement from E2 Mountain West Advocate Susan Nedell CARSON CITY (June 22, 2020) – Governor Steve Sisolak today announced Nevada will begin a low-emission (LEV) and zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) rulemaking process. If implemented, Nevada would become the 14th state, not including the District of Columbia, to adopt Clean Cars Standards. Nevada has already joined nearly […]
As the California Air Resources Board considers the Advanced Clean Trucks rule to bring clean trucks to market at the scale necessary to help California meet its 2030 emission reduction target and achieve its goal of carbon-neutrality by 2045, 268 California private sector leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and other business professionals signed onto this E2 letter […]
On March 10, just before the COVID-19 crisis swept across the country, Oregon Governor Kate Brown made climate action history. By signing an ambitious and far-reaching executive order, Governor Brown positioned Oregon to reduce the emissions driving climate change from a broad range of sources across the Oregon economy while priming the state’s clean energy economy for […]
“This rollback represents a self-inflicted wound to our economy in the heart of an economic crisis,’’ said Sandra Purohit, director of federal advocacy for the national nonpartisan business group E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs). The new rule is already being challenged in court by New Jersey and a couple dozen other states, as well as many environmental […]
Rollback threatens 740,000 US jobs in cleaner, fuel-efficient vehicles WASHINGTON, DC (March 31, 2020) – The Trump administration today finalized its plan to roll back the popular Obama-era fuel economy standards, reversing the federal government’s largest effort to fight climate change impacts. Following is a statement from Sandra Purohit, director of federal advocacy for the […]
In a release, Ian Hill, co-founder of Oregon-based SeQuential Biofuels and E2 Pacific Northwest member said Brown’s executive order represents a critical opportunity for Oregon’s economy and a commitment to action on behalf of Oregonians threatened by the fires, droughts, flooding, and other catastrophic impacts of escalating climate change. “The long-term health of our economy […]
Ian Hill is the co-founder of SeQuential Biofuels. The company works with restaurants to collect used cooking oil and turns it into low-carbon, clean-burning fuel. They also have a gas station in Eugene that sells biodiesel. Hill said he was hoping lawmakers in Salem would be able to work together to pass climate action but […]
We need federal leadership to guide climate-smart investments and projects. Instead, the Trump administration is proposing to turn a blind eye to the potential negative climate impacts of future projects, which will undermine businesses. Ignoring climate impacts when assessing projects will undercut more responsible and better-planned proposals. As a result, it will hurt those that […]
E2: Gov. Brown’s Executive Order Good for Economy, Environment Action will create jobs, address climate change say Oregon business leaders SALEM, OR (March 10, 2020) – Today Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed an executive order to substantially reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions, expand the clean energy economy, and take other important steps to advance […]
More than 600 business leaders from across the country publicly stated their opposition to the Trump administration’s proposed changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in a letter delivered to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) today. The letter was signed by businesspeople including leaders of major companies, small business owners and […]
The Trump Administration is proposing draconian rollbacks to economic and environmental protections under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). We have until next Tuesday, March 10, 2020 to formally oppose changes that would allow the government to ignore climate impacts, weaken environmental reviews and would make it harder to challenge government and industry projects when they […]