“If you’re really going to change behavior and combat this climate crisis — and my God, last few weeks have shown why this is urgent — you’ve really got to start with taxes and prices,” Wyden said during an event with the business group Environmental Entrepreneurs, or E2. “That’s how you drive changes in behavior.”
WASHINGTON – The House Ways and Means Committee unveiled its list of revenue priorities and tax reforms (or “pay-fors”) it will rely on to fund the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. Statement from Sandra Purohit, director of federal advocacy for the national, nonpartisan business group E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs): “The cost of going small is too high. […]
Illinois set to remain regional leader in clean energy job growth through bold renewable energy policies, funding for workforce training and equity SPRINGFIELD, IL – Last night the Illinois House passed energy legislation that makes Illinois the first state in the Midwest to commit to 100% carbon-free power by 2045. This critical step for Illinois’ […]
Bill takes steps for Illinois to remain regional leader in clean energy job growth through bold renewable energy policies, funding for workforce training and equity but falls short on climate action SPRINGFIELD — Last night the Illinois Senate passed comprehensive energy legislation that would make Illinois the first state in the Midwest to commit to 100 percent carbon-free power by 2045. However, the bill lacks a […]
According to E2’s analysis, as of 2021 more than 484,000 Californians worked in clean energy and more than $102 billion in public and private clean energy related investments have been injected into the state. California’s climate policies – including its leading Renewables Portfolio Standard and transportation electrification policies such as Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule and the Advanced Clean Cars (ACC) program – are key to this economic growth and future growth as well.
California’s Statewide 2021 Clean Energy Jobs Report
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Almost 50 percent of the $8.3 billion in clean energy investments from California’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds have benefited disadvantaged and low-income communities and households across the state. The state’s climate policies funded by the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund have cut emissions by the equivalent of taking 14 million cars off the road.
How to Download: Use the tables below to locate and download all 120 factsheets for every California state legislative district. Each factsheet details out the district-specific jobs and economic impact resulting from California’s climate policies.
For more information on the source and methodology used to compile the numbers on this sheet, please see Understanding The Numbers or visit https://e2.org/reports/caclimateleadership/sources.
For details on clean energy’s statewide impact on jobs in California, including data at the county, metro, congressional district levels, and for details by subsector and value chain, visit E2’s Clean Jobs California 2021 report page.
This district-by-district report follows E2’s Clean Jobs America analysis which found the clean energy jobs account for over 3 million jobs across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Both reports expand on data from the U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) produced by the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) in partnership with the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO), using data collected and analyzed by the BW Research Partnership. E2 is a partner on the USEER, the fifth installment of the energy survey first released by the Department of Energy in 2016. Additional methodology on the private and public investment number and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund investments can be found in our About The Numbers reference document.
For additional information, visit e2.org/reports or contact E2 communications director Michael Timberlake at ([email protected]). An FAQ is also available here.
View Report »California is already suffering dire economic impacts from the effects of climate change, presenting significant business and economic risk to the world’s fifth largest economy. The costs of extreme climate events such as wildfires and droughts have risen steadily throughout the past decade, and are projected to increase dramatically in California if current trajectories continue. These costs are being borne by everyone who lives, pays taxes, buys insurance, or works in California.
At the same time, aggressively addressing climate change — reducing greenhouse gas emissions while growing the state’s clean energy economy — presents one of the greatest economic opportunities of the 21st century. Ambitious climate action produces robust job creation, sustainable economic growth, and California leading global innovation across a wide range of industry sectors. Members of Congress can seize this opportunity by passing a bold American Jobs Plan anchored in clean energy investments; California lawmakers must build on existing state climate policy leadership to ensure the state remains a nexus of investment and innovation in the 21st-century economy.
This report reviews and compares the damage to California’s economy from recent climate-related disasters and risks from future unabated climate change to the potential impact specific climate action policies could have on job and economic growth in the state’s core industries such as technology, construction, agriculture, and tourism. The report, made possible by the Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Foundation, uses publicly-available information and data from previous E2 analysis, BW Research, state and federal agencies, the University of California system, and other sources.
If you are looking for additional insight into the clean economy and how it drives job growth, please see E2’s other clean energy employment reports, visit e2.org/reports.
By E2 Interns: Kai Diep and Andrea Guerra California regulators have a critical opportunity to drive economic growth in the state’s blossoming zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) industry and help achieve state climate targets by advancing a strong Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule with a 100% electric truck sales requirement by 2035. This ambitious yet achievable goal […]
The COVID-19 pandemic hit the Midwest clean energy job market hard, with more than 17,000 workers at one point filing for unemployment. But the industry appears to be rebounding, according to an analysis of employment data released by the nonpartisan business group E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) and Clean Energy Trust. Clean energy companies employed 113,456 Michiganders at the […]
According to the nonpartisan business group E2, or Environmental Entrepreneurs, more than 115,000 Illinoisans worked in the clean energy sector at the end of last year, with workers in all of the state’s 102 counties. The final 2020 job numbers show an 8.2% drop in Illinois’ clean energy workforce from 2019, representing more than 10,000 […]
The pandemic year of 2020 saw a sharp decline in clean energy jobs across the Midwest, the first year-to-year drop since the 2017 inception of annual clean energy jobs reports by the Clean Energy Trust and Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). At one point in 2020, more than 131,600 Midwest clean energy workers had filed for unemployment, […]
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Raleigh – North Carolina’s Environmental Management Commission (EMC) today approved a petition for the state to begin the rulemaking process to join the 11-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The multi-state program curbs carbon emissions from power plants by placing a declining cap on CO2 emissions from the states’ electric power generation sector and reinvests […]