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E2 Mtn West Action Alert: CDOT Rule-making (10/14/21)

Updated Letter of Business Support – Strong Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Standard for Transportation Planning

Biden American Jobs Plan: What U.S. Economy, Environment Needs

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, […]

Ask Gov Cuomo to commit to regional clean transportation with TCI

The Transportation and Climate Initiative is a once in a generation opportunity to transform New York’s transportation system, cut carbon pollution and invest in communities and better transportation options.

Support Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI)

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 […]

OURTRANSPORTATIONFUTURE.ORG: New Broad-Based Advocacy Effort Boosts Regional Initiative to Reduce Vehicle Pollution

Forty-eight local, regional and national groups today launched a new coalition, Our Transportation Future, established to help Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states develop a regional clean transportation system that protects public health, curbs climate-changing pollution, expands economies and improves the flow of commerce. The coalition will support states’ efforts to address a transportation system that is unworkable, […]

The New Mobility: The Intersection of Technology, Electrification, and Transportation

Thursday, May 31, 2018 | Doors Open at 6:30 PM, Program at 7:15 PM Patagonia NYC Meatpacking 414 W 14th St, New York, NY 10014 **Drinks and snacks will be provided** Technological advancements are delivering a clean vehicles future that until just recently seemed like a fantasy. Personal electric vehicle adoption is booming, and through […]

Cleaner and Healthier Transportation: Electrification in Colorado

Colorado is at a crossroads – emissions from transportation is about to overtake the electricity sector, even as Pruitt’s EPA wants to roll back the national clean car standards.  Yet we are poised to take action.  Governor Hickenlooper joined the Climate Alliance with other states, pledging Colorado to follow the Paris Agreement. In July 2017, the Governor […]

Support Efforts to Combat Traffic Congestion in California

With the California State Legislature considering a bill to authorize California local agencies to tackle traffic congestion in their jurisdictions by piloting congestion relief programs called “Go Zones,” E2 members and allies from across the state sent this letter to California legislators urging them to support this bill and empower efforts to free up California’s […]

Clean Jobs Quarterly | Q3 2014

More than 18,000 clean energy and clean transportation jobs were announced in 23 states during the third quarter of 2014. This represents an uptick relative to Q2. This quarter’s numbers are also higher than the corresponding quarter a year ago.

Despite the strong quarter, future clean energy job growth is anything but assured, especially given the uncertainty surrounding the political changes that came with the Nov. 4 election. It will be up to the new Republican-led Congress to decide whether to continue the job-creating clean energy policies that have been crucial to driving clean energy development and employment in every state in the country.

Both Republican and Democratic congressional districts benefited almost equally from clean energy job announcements — indicating that clean energy knows no political boundaries, according to E2’s analysis. At least 9,095 jobs were announced in Republican congressional districts, compared with 7,690 jobs announced in Democratic districts. About 1,250 job announcements spanned both Republican and Democratic districts.

Another reason this quarter’s results are not as rosy as they may initially appear is that utilities seeking maximum return on investment rushed to install solar projects ahead of the scheduled expiration of the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for solar power. The current ITC stipulates that projects must be completed by the end of 2016 in order to qualify for the 30-percent tax credit. Should the lame-duck or new 114th Congress fail to extend or reinstate tax credits for solar, wind, and energy efficiency, it would remove some of the market certainty clean energy businesses need to hire more workers. This would continue to tilt the playing field in the favor of a fossil fuel industry heavily supported by subsidies, potentially slowing momentum of clean energy job announcements in multiple sectors in upcoming quarters. The e wind industry offers a grim example of what happens to growing industries when Congress prematurely removes or fails to renew incentives. After the wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) expired in 2012, industry group American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) reported 32,000 industry jobs were lost the following year.1 Since the PTC expired at the end of last year, wind announcements once again are declining drastically: by Q3 2014, E2 has tracked just over 5,000 jobs — less than half as many as this time in 2012

Clean Jobs Quarterly | Q2 2012

Clean energy continues to contribute to the U.S. economy, breathing new life into domestic manufacturing and providing high quality jobs for workers around the country. Since September 2011, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), whose members represent a broad crosssection of business leaders, has been documenting our nation’s growth in this sector in our bi-weekly newsletter Clean Energy Jobs News. Since our first newsletter, E2 has compiled nearly 450 separate announcements of new hiring opportunities by companies, cities, and organizations, showing that America leads the way in energy innovation and creating new jobs.