When it comes to rolling out cleaner, more sustainable vehicles, states are driving change and leading the pace. Smart policies recently passed from California to North Carolina promise to rev up the marketplace for low- and zero-emission vehicles — and drive job growth in the automotive, battery and equipment sectors along the way.
Please join E2 Midwest as we explore new technologies, the policy landscape for energy storage and the formation of a Chicago-area pilot for community electric vehicle charging stations. Batteries play a critical role in increasing clean energy from storing renewable energy to powering electric vehicles. With cutting edge programs at Argonne National Labs and the […]
Over a dozen nonprofit organizations and industry experts are coming together to provide unbiased, educational information for San Diego families considering a less expensive and more sustainable electricity option. The events will educate about upcoming SDG&E rate changes, how solar and energy storage work, available state and federal incentives and much more. Location IBEW Local […]
More than 500 business leaders, investors and other professionals, including eight from Michigan, recently signed a letter sent to every member of the 116th Congress imploring lawmakers to “take immediate and ambitious action” to address the economic threats made clear in the Trump administration’s Fourth National Climate Assessment. The letter was organized by Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), […]
Statement from E2 Western States Advocate Andy Wunder SALEM, OR (February 1, 2019) – Yesterday draft language for the long-awaited Clean Energy Jobs Bill was released. If passed, the legislation would create a Cap-and-Invest program that would place an economy-wide limit on greenhouse gas emissions, create a market-based program to drive least-cost emission reductions, and […]
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 […]
Whether you’ve been stuck in traffic on I-93 or watched helplessly as MBTA shut down operations during the winter of 2015, if you’re a commuter, you know that our transportation system is broken. At the same time, transportation has become the biggest source of GHG emissions in the Northeast and one of the leading […]
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.
Analysis of Clean Energy’s Economic Benefits Across Oregon (updated for 2019)
Oregon’s Statewide 2018 Clean Energy Jobs Report
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Signers have business interests in every state, region of the country WASHINGTON (January 8, 2019) – More than 500 business leaders, investors and other professionals signed a letter sent to every member of the 116th Congress today imploring lawmakers to “take immediate and ambitious action” to address the economic threats made clear in the Trump […]
Ceres and the regional chapter of Environmental Entrepreneurs organized a recent roadshow, complete with a bus converted from diesel to electric by the company Lightning Systems, to highlight businesses and local governments in Larimer County that are adding electric vehicles to their fleets and providing employees places to charge their cars. … Ceres and the […]
The Farm Bill isn’t typically considered environmental legislation, but that’s a mistake. The legislation has an enormous direct impact on the quality of our country’s air, water and, perhaps most important, its soil. As a result, it also determines the health of our economy and environment. And the 2018 edition, which provides a blueprint for […]
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 […]