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 […]
E&E News covers Trump’s State of the Union speech, remarking his emphasis on the importance of coal and a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill. But for critics of the president, they see the infrastructure bill as the latest iteration of attacks on environmental safeguards. “The scarce details we do have point to an approach that emphasizes […]
On January 30, the president will deliver his State of the Union address and his vision for the coming year. Please join E2 the next day for a discussion and Q & A about what the president’s remarks mean to our policy priorities, our economy and our environment, and to hear about our strategies and opportunities […]
WASHINGTON (January 30, 2018) –President Trump’s first State of the Union tonight is set to remind Americans how his administration is actively ignoring the millions of Americans that work in solar, wind, energy efficiency, efficient vehicles and many other industries which are on the cutting edge of innovation. Below is a statement from Grant Carlisle, […]
The Pittsburgh City Paper cites E2’s Pennsylvania Clean Jobs Report in an article covering a press conference at the Allegheny County Courthouse earlier today, where Pennsylvania legislators voiced their support for the ideals laid out in the Paris Agreement. Quoting Sharon Pillar of E2: “We know full well how decreasing energy consumption and increasing renewable […]
E2 NY has an opportunity to join a special NRDC briefing with Mitch Bernard, NRDC Chief Counsel. Prior to the briefing, guests are invited to attend a tour of NRDC’s NY office, featuring its internal sustainability practices. Following the tour, Bernard will discuss NRDC’s litigation efforts since the inauguration of President Trump and the increasingly […]
E2 member and NRDC Director of Energy and Transportation, Kit Kennedy, co-writes a blog on the NRDC’s website evaluating NY Governor Cuomo’s pledge to set an energy efficiency target for the state. Citing E2’s Clean Jobs New York report, Kennedy says: “…nearly 70,000 New Yorkers were employed in 2015 to manufacture and install energy-saving measures, […]
WASHINGTON (December 19, 2017) – President Trump yesterday omitted any mention of climate change in his first national security strategy, ignoring his own military leaders (including Defense Secretary James Mattis) and the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) he signed into law just last week. The recently signed NDAA specifically calls climate change a “direct threat to […]