Congressional Action on Climate and Clean Energy in 2019

Please join E2 for a special webinar this Wednesday, Jan. 30 to learn about current and upcoming action on climate, clean energy and transportation issues in the new Congress. Our special guests include Rep. A. Donald McEachin, who leads several key climate and clean energy efforts in the House; Kenneth DeGraff, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s […]

Cap & Invest: Expanding Oregon’s Clean Energy Economy

Interested in learning more about Oregon’s clean energy economy and the economic opportunities presented by the Cap & Invest program expected to be considered by the Legislature in early 2019? Want to hear about the role agriculture can play in Oregon meeting its climate goals? Join E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) and our local partners for this gathering of […]

Cap & Invest: Expanding Oregon’s Clean Energy Economy

Interested in learning more about Oregon’s clean energy economy and the economic opportunities presented by the Cap & Invest program expected to be considered by the Legislature in early 2019? Join E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) and our local partners for this gathering of the business, policy and investor communities in Greater Portland to hear about Oregon’s growing clean […]

District-By-District | 2019 Clean Energy Jobs in Oregon

Date: January 22, 2019

Despite a population of just 4 million, Oregon’s clean energy economy ranks 14th in solar jobs and in the top 21 in energy efficiency, wind energy, clean fuels, grid and storage, renewable energy, and total clean energy jobs.

Thanks to policies like the Renewables Portfolio Standard, Clean Fuels Program and Coal to Clean that are driving development of infrastructure projects like solar arrays and wind farms, more than 55,000 Oregonians across every county in the state work in the clean energy sector according to E2’s Clean Jobs Oregon 2018 report released in December.

But these statewide numbers only tell part of the clean energy success story in Oregon. Below is a district-by-district look at the jobs and economic benefits that have resulted from Oregon’s climate policies.

Clean Jobs | District-By-District

Analysis of Clean Energy’s Economic Benefits Across Oregon (updated for 2019)

Iberdrola Renewables’ Klondike III windfarm in Oregon // Credit: NREL

Oregon’s Statewide 2018 Clean Energy Jobs Report
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What House Democrats can, and can’t, do to push action on climate

The Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) advocacy group organized a letter to every member of the new Congress imploring them to “take immediate and ambitious action” to address the economic threats of climate change. It was signed by more than 500 business leaders and other professionals and was released on Jan. 8. “Congress has not only the […]

Hold Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler Accountable (Maine)

As the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is holding a confirmation hearing today on the nomination of Andrew Wheeler to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, E2 members write this letter to Senators Collins and King urging the Senate to advise Mr. Wheeler to reconsider his troubling positions on these issues to […]

Hold Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler Accountable (Colorado)

As the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is holding a confirmation hearing today on the nomination of Andrew Wheeler to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, E2 members write this letter to Senators Collins and King urging the Senate to advise Mr. Wheeler to reconsider his troubling positions on these issues to ensure […]

Commentary: Why the Midwest should revive its carbon plan

Even as traditional manufacturing, automotive and mining jobs are unable to return the same opportunities for the American heartland, Environmental Entrepreneurs’ Clean Jobs Midwest 2018 analysis reports that, already, more than 700,000 Midwesterners work in clean energy, with construction and manufacturing making up over 70 percent. That’s four times more than the number of employees working in […]

Gov. Polis Announces EVs, Clean Air Are Top Priorities for New Administration

Denver, CO (January 17, 2019) — Today, Gov. Jared Polis made cleaner air and vehicles one of his administration’s top priorities by signing an executive order directing state agencies to accelerate the transition toward a clean transportation future. The order directs the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to reduce transportation emissions by […]

Why climate change is going to clobber our economy

Recent reports about the state of climate change send another warning about its impacts: It’s going to clobber our economy. From the federal government’s National Climate Assessment and the United Nations’ IPCC report to recent state-specific economic projections, the link between our environment and our economy is crystal clear. The findings are consistent that climate change could cost the […]

Biz Leaders to Congress: ‘We Demand Immediate, Ambitious Action against Climate Change’

A group of more than 500 business leaders and investors are demanding that lawmakers “take immediate and ambitious action” to address the economic threats from climate change made clear in the Trump administration’s 4th National Climate Assessment via a letter sent to all members of the Congress. The letter, organized by E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), was signed by executives from […]

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