Join us at @COSEIA’s Solar Power Mountain West solar conference in March! For the second year in a row – the Solar Career Expo, Powered by Solar Ready Colorado – you will also have the chance to meet with Colorado-based solar energy companies for a unique professional networking and career exploration event! Agenda and Travel […]
Join Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) and The Alliance Center (TAC) for a happy hour with casual and informed conversation, concluding with a tour TAC’s cutting edge work space, which is a leader in green building innovation. We will be joined by speakers from the Climate Leadership Conference and local leaders in sustainability to provide a more intimate setting […]
Over the past decade, the United States has made huge strides in increasing the efficiency of vehicles and reducing their emissions – thanks in part to federal fuel economy standards, tax advantages for electric vehicles and government support for research and innovation. Join E2 to learn how Trump administration policies are now threatening recent progress […]
In a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, E2 members expressed opposition to the Administration’s plans to expose our nation’s coastlines to more offshore oil and gas exploration. Expanding offshore drilling would impose unacceptable economic costs on our coastlines and our pubic waters. It would also deepen our nation’s dependence on oil and undermine our transition […]
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. […]
GreenBiz featured a story on the all E2 panel at GreenBiz 18. The 4-member panel focused on the increasing need for clean energy business leaders of all sizes to engage on advocacy matters and make their voices heard to lawmakers on federal and state policies. The panel included: Nicole Lederer, co-founder of E2 Jon Powers, […]
WASHINGTON (Feb. 14, 2017) – The Interior Department took another step to undo smart environmental standards by formally proposing the elimination of an Obama-era rule setting new standards for methane emissions (a highly destructive greenhouse gas). The standards aimed to limit wasteful venting and leaks from new and modified oil and gas industrial operations and […]
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, […]
With the Oregon State Legislature considering two versions of a bill to establish a statewide Cap-and-Invest program, E2 members from across the state sent this letter to all Oregon legislators urging both chambers to support this bill that will empower Oregon to continue its progress in combating climate change and to assert its position as […]
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 […]