HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA – With new forecasts raising fears that the growing Southern California oil spill could soon reach more coastal areas, organizations representing thousands of ocean economy businesses redoubled calls for Congress to immediately and permanently prevent the expansion of offshore drilling and expand clean energy though the Build Back Better Act. Vipe Desai, […]
E2: Actions will help displaced oil and gas workers and get more jobs in low income and communities of color WASHINGTON (January 27, 2021) – Today, President Biden is announcing sweeping climate plans that include a moratorium on new federal oil and gas leases on public land, directs government to ramp up procurement of clean energy and […]
On January 10, the Trump administration announced it plans to roll back the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), excluding more projects from NEPA review and allowing project developers to write the environmental analysis. We know what that looks like. Deepwater Horizon was exempted from full environmental review under NEPA. As a result, the economic and […]
WHEN Thursday, October 10, 2019 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, with programming beginning at 6:30 PM WHERE Cross Campus San Diego 2159 India Street, 2nd Floor San Diego, CA, 92101 WHAT Congressman Scott Peters, a long-time environmental champion, released The Climate Playbook this April. The Playbook lays out dozens of bills authored by both Democrats […]
Bob Keefe, executive director of clean energy advocacy group E2, said he remembers his daughters’ birthday parties, walks along the sand and watching the sunsets at Moonlight State Beach. Concerned about offshore drilling putting the beach and local coastline at risk, he joined two local congressmen and other offshore drilling opponents at a news conference […]
WASHINGTON (September 11, 2019) – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 1941 and HR 205, which would permanently protect coastal economies along Florida’s Gulf Coast and the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts from expanded offshore drilling. Following is a statement from Bob Keefe executive director of the national nonpartisan business group E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs): […]
As the Trump administration considers opening more of our coasts to offshore drilling, E2 worked with local partners on the east coast – the Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC) and the west coast – the Business Alliance for Protecting the Pacific Coast (BAPPC) to produce economic analysis on the enormous financial and employment value America’s ocean economy brings to states and their coastal communities across the country.
In the links below are one-page factsheets detailing the commercial and jobs benefits generated from ocean-related tourism, recreation and fishing across eight states and 51 congressional districts, as well as the direct investments and jobs created by clean energy industries in those same communities.
If you are looking for additional insight into the economic benefits of clean energy to America’s coastal economies, please visit e2.org/reports to access E2’s annual clean energy jobs report or contact E2 Communications Director Michael Timberlake ([email protected]) with any questions.
All findings in the factsheets are based on the data reported from the following reports:
Please join E2 for the opportunity to talk with U.S. Senator Tom Carper (DE) about advancing climate change policy in America. As the ranking member on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Carper leads the Democratic agenda on environmental issues in the Senate. Senator Carper will address climate action in the 116th Congress including infrastructure […]
The Business Alliance for Protecting the Pacific Coast (BAPPC) is the leading business voice opposing new and expanded oil and gas development off the Pacific Coast. BAPPC formed in response to the Trump Administration’s plans to open federal waters off California, Oregon, and Washington to new oil and gas drilling via the Five-Year Outer Continental […]
Statement from Grant Carlisle, E2 Director of Advocacy WASHINGTON – Interior Secretary David Bernhardt told the Wall Street Journal the Trump administration’s plan for expanding federal offshore oil and gas leasing is on hold indefinitely, as the result of a legal ruling in a case challenging its move to open up protected areas of the […]
Plan ignores climate-friendly benefits of offshore wind WASHINGTON, DC (April XX, 2019) – The Trump administration today released a plan to expand offshore drilling leases off the the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. The Proposed Five Year Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program, issued by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for 2019-2024, would unnecessarily expose […]
The past few years we’ve had a leading publication put the plastic issue on the cover of their magazine, major brands from the consumer goods forum redesigning plastic waste out of their operations and packaging, bans on plastics bags, straws and micro beads, and entrepreneurs putting purpose before profit. And NGO”s the world over are helping to drive these changes. While there are […]