Electric pickup trucks are cool. But when it comes to building a cleaner economy and creating the jobs and other economic opportunities that come with it, so are heat pumps, Energy Star appliances and climate finance, the Biden administration showed this week. While up in Michigan the biggest game-changing electric vehicle since Tesla — the Ford F-150 Lightning — stole the […]
E2: Administration takes a “whole of economy” approach to climate action WASHINGTON (March 31, 2021) – President Biden will outline his plan for rebuilding America’s infrastructure in a speech later today in Pittsburgh. Biden’s American Jobs Plan will focus on how smart investments in priorities such as ensuring safe drinking water, modernizing the energy grid, […]
WHAT Profound change is afoot in the quest to meet California’s ambitious decarbonization targets and our state’s electric grid is a critical lynchpin; delivering zero-carbon electricity to California citizens and businesses is critical as we work to power our industries, buildings, and transportation sector with clean electricity. Realizing 100% clean energy and statewide carbon neutrality […]
Newly passed bill is type of policy California “needs to help its economic recovery” SACRAMENTO (September 1, 2020) – Late Monday night, the California legislature passed AB 841, a bill that swill streamline millions in investments to expand California’s electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and make improvements to school energy efficiency upgrades. Following is a […]
Statement from Director of Federal Advocacy, Sandra Purohit WASHINGTON (July 1, 2020) – The House of Representatives today passed the “Moving Forward Act” (H.R. 2), a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill that prioritizes clean energy to combat the looming threat of climate change and accelerates America’s economic recovery. The bill includes investments in clean energy, clean […]
America’s Clean Energy Powerhouse in the Wake of COVID-19After a fifth straight year of job growth since E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) began tracking U.S. clean energy employment, California’s clean energy economy is facing a torrent of job losses and work freezes so significant it could set the industry back years. What had been one of the nation’s fastest-growing job sectors over the last five years is now one of the fastest-shrinking in the wake of COVID-19-related shutdowns disrupting supply chains and building energy efficiency projects, halting new developments and emptying project pipelines, and slowing investments while wrecking financial outlooks.
Entering 2020, California’s clean energy economy had grown for five straight years since this annual report was first released with clean energy jobs growing to make up 3 percent of the state’s entire workforce.
E2’s Clean Jobs California 2020 details the sheer size of this important employment sector, the troubles it is currently facing due to COVID-19 and how focusing recovery policies on clean energy can get the Golden State’s economy humming again—quickly and for the long run.
The complete report is available for download at this link.
The analysis expands on data from the 2020 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. The report was released in March 2020and is available at www.usenergyjobs.org. E2 is a partner on the USEER, the fifth installment of the energy survey first released by the Department of Energy in 2016 and subsequently abandoned under the Trump administration. Clean energy jobs have grown every year since the first report was released in 2016.
If you are looking for additional insight into E2’s Clean Jobs California 2020 or our other Clean Jobs America reports, visit e2.org/reports. You can also contact E2 Communications Director Michael Timberlake ([email protected]). An FAQ is also available here to answer any questions.
Clean Jobs America 2020 is the 3rd clean energy jobs report for California from E2. Previous reports can be accessed in the below links.
View Report »The Trump Administration is proposing draconian rollbacks to economic and environmental protections under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). We have until next Tuesday, March 10, 2020 to formally oppose changes that would allow the government to ignore climate impacts, weaken environmental reviews and would make it harder to challenge government and industry projects when they […]
Statements from CEO of Chicago-based Whitney Architects and E2 Director of Federal Advocacy WASHINGTON (March 3, 2020) – As the Senate Energy Package (S. 2657) moves to the floor this week, more than 200 architects, engineers and contractors from across the country sent a letter to all senators urging them to include the Kennedy-Carper amendment […]
Governor Sisolak issued Executive Order 2019-22 on Friday, November 21, 2019, committing to reduce carbon pollution in Nevada and work toward an equitable and inclusive transition to a carbon neutral, clean energy economy. In his speech following the signing of the executive order, Governor Sisolak announced that Nevada intends to join the 11 other states in the […]
We in New York have a unique opportunity to significantly reduce harmful carbon emissions from the transportation sector while also modernizing the region’s transit systems and creating tens of thousands of jobs. New York and 11 other Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C., are part of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), a state-led coalition working […]
Statement from E2 Advocacy Director Grant Carlisle WASHINGTON (March 11, 2019) – The Trump administration introduced its federal budget proposal today, once again including cuts to and proposals to eliminate programs that drive investment in clean energy innovation and help American businesses create jobs and drive economic growth across the country. The following is a […]
Governors of CT, DE, MA, MD, NJ, PA, RI, VA and VT, Mayor of Washington, D.C., Move Forward with Climate Policy for Transportation, After Year-long Process of Collecting Regional Input. WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 18, 2018) – Leading environmental, scientific, transportation, health, and business organizations working to advance modern, clean, equitable and low-carbon transportation celebrated an announcement […]