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Clean Jobs Count to hold events across the country in 2018
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Major digital ad campaigns running in numerous states
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New state factsheets and reports will detail clean energy employment by county, congressional and legislative district
Washington, DC – (May 8, 2018) – With the Trump administration enamored with coal, oil and gas, and with clean energy policies under threat in Washington and in many states, E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) announced today a major nationwide campaign to advance awareness and support of America’s fastest-growing energy sector.
The campaign, Clean Jobs Count, will unite business leaders, investors, and workers across the country to call on federal and state lawmakers to stand up to attempts to roll back renewable energy and energy efficiency policies and to amplify the economic benefits of clean energy in their communities. Clean energy now employs more than 3 million Americans – about 2 ½ times as many workers as the fossil fuel industry.
“Since E2 started tracking job growth in 2011, we’ve known that clean energy jobs are driving our economy, and we’ve made that message heard in state capitals, on Capitol Hill and in boardrooms nationwide,” said Bob Keefe, executive director of the national, nonpartisan business group. “With this new campaign, business leaders, workers, investors and others can easily add their names and their collective power and voice to the call for clean energy in America.”
The campaign will leverage E2’s history of tracking clean energy jobs, its network of business leaders who work or do business in nearly every state, and the strength of its nine chapters stretching from New England to Southern California to amplify the message that Clean Jobs Count.
As part of the campaign, E2 recently launched or is launching major digitial ad campaigns in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Colorado aimed at raising awareness of pressing clean energy issues in these states. The ads encourage businesspeople and others to sign the Clean Jobs Count pledge calling on lawmakers to support clean energy. In Michigan, for instance, E2’s ads focused on how clean energy can create 10 times as many jobs as a controversial new gas plant being built by DTE Energy. In Ohio, ads will focus on attempts to derail wind energy development. Additional ad campaigns are planned throughout the rest of 2018 in at least half a dozen more states.
To magnify how clean jobs are essential to lawmakers’ local economies, E2 will also release new clean energy employment data down to the county, congressional and legislative district levels for select states, in connection with Clean Jobs Count events nationwide throughout 2018.
In Pennsylvania, E2 and its state partners are organizing a policy telepresser for the release of their 2018 Clean Jobs Pennsylvania report later this month. In Colorado, E2 and partners will release their 2018 Clean Jobs Colorado report at an event scheduled with Gov. John Hickenlooper in Denver in June. Similar factsheets and reports will be released in Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, and other states throughout the summer and fall.
“These reports will provide legislators with look at how their districts and counties compare, and give business leaders, workers and consumers a snapshot of which lawmakers are doing the most to bring well-paying clean energy jobs to their communities,“ Keefe said.
The state breakdowns will expand on the data from the 2018 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER), which will be released May 16 in Washington, D.C., by the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) and the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO). E2 is a partner on the 2018 USEER report, which builds on research initiated by E2 and research partner BW Research several years ago and later became the basis for similar USEER reports produced by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2016 and 2017.
More information about E2’s clean energy jobs research can be found at www.e2.org/reports
Additional Resources:
- Clean Jobs Count: Clean Jobs Count Pledge
- E2: 2017 Clean Jobs America Factsheet
- DOE: 2017 USEER Report
- E2: 2017 Energy Efficiency Jobs in America
- E2 & Clean Energy Trust: Clean Jobs Midwest
- Department of Labor: Projected fastest growing jobs 2016-2026
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Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) is a national, nonpartisan group of business leaders, investors, and professionals from every sector of the economy who advocate for smart policies that are good for the economy and good for the environment. Our members have founded or funded more than 2,500 companies, created more than 600,000 jobs, and manage more than $100 billion in venture and private equity capital. For more information, see www.e2.org or follow us on Twitter at @e2org.