Please join E2 & COBA for a discussion with business leaders and policy experts to learn about important clean energy and climate bills making their way through the Colorado legislator, and how you can take action to support. MODERATOR: Mark Stevens, District Environmental Coordinator, Patagonia SPEAKER PANEL: Noah Long, Director, Interior West and Northwest Climate and Clean Energy […]
The past few years we’ve had a leading publication put the plastic issue on the cover of their magazine, major brands from the consumer goods forum redesigning plastic waste out of their operations and packaging, bans on plastics bags, straws and micro beads, and entrepreneurs putting purpose before profit. And NGO”s the world over are helping to drive these changes. While there are […]
WASHINGTON (March 27, 2019) – Today, HR 9 — the Climate Action Now Act — was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill would reaffirm the U.S.’s commitment to the Paris Agreement. The following is a statement from Bob Keefe, executive director of the national, nonpartisan business group E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), which took […]
Just last week, the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition released the details of the Clean Energy Jobs Act at seven press conferences across the state. The legislation aims to move Illinois towards 100% clean energy, dramatically expand energy efficiency programs, decarbonize the power sector and increase electric vehicle penetration. Join us on March 18th to learn how […]
As Oregon Legislators consider the Clean Energy Jobs bill (HB 2020), E2 members and supporters sent this letter in support of providing Oregon with a cost-effective path to reduce the emissions driving climate change.
Executed properly, carbon pricing programs offer regulators a cost-effective, market-based tool to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. A number of states are already pricing carbon and E2 has been an active proponent of both California’s economy wide Cap-and-Trade Program and the North Eastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Additional states are considering similar action, including Oregon; passage of cap-and-trade legislation in Oregon is […]
More than 70 Oregon business executives, entrepreneurs, investors and other professionals sent a letterto state lawmakers on Wednesday urging them to pass the Clean Energy Jobs bill (H.B. 2020). According to the letter signed by Oregon members, supporters and partners of the national, nonpartisan business group E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), the groundbreaking bill would send a clear, long-term signal […]
E2 New England has a special opportunity to join Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Senior Strategic Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, at a launch event for her new book, Will China Save the Planet?
Bill would strengthen and expand Oregon’s clean energy economy, according to letter signed by 70+ business executives, entrepreneurs, investors and other professionals from across the state. SALEM, OR (February 20, 2019) – More than 70 Oregon business executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and other professionals sent a letter to state lawmakers on Wednesday urging them to pass […]
Last year E2 worked in close partnership with the Business Alliance for Protecting the Pacific Coast (BAPPC) to oppose President Trump’s Five-Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program. While our work resulted in key victories (see below), the Federal Government is moving forward with its plans to extend offshore drilling on the West Coast, and E2 […]
More than 500 business leaders, investors and other professionals, including eight from Michigan, recently signed a letter sent to every member of the 116th Congress imploring lawmakers to “take immediate and ambitious action” to address the economic threats made clear in the Trump administration’s Fourth National Climate Assessment. The letter was organized by Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), […]
Yesterday, draft language for the long-awaited Clean Energy Jobs Bill was released. If passed, the legislation would create a Cap-and-Invest program that would place an economy-wide limit on greenhouse gas emissions, create a market-based program to drive least-cost emission reductions and invest the program’s proceeds into climate change mitigation projects, including clean energy projects such as wind […]