Releases
ANALYSIS: N.C. to Add 30K Jobs, $10B to GDP from first-year IRA-Induced Clean Energy Projects
As hundreds of clean energy business leaders converge in Chapel Hill for the University of North Carolina’s 10th annual Cleantech Summit, a new report finds large-scale clean energy projects announced in North Carolina in the first year of the federal Infla...
March 21 2024
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E2: Costs of Climate Change Rising “No Matter Where You Are in America” As Disaster in Southern California Rages
A state of emergency has been declared in Southern California as storms continue to blast the region with heavy wind, historic rainfall, and deadly flooding and mudslides. Preliminary estimates project the total damage and economic loss from this week’s sto...
February 6 2024
Releases
States Given Authority to Drive U.S. Clean Vehicle Economy Forward
The standards require that half of all heavy trucks sold in the state must be all-electric by 2035. EPA’s approval also reaffirms California’s authority to determine its own path toward a clean vehicle-driven economy and other states’ ability to follow suit.
March 31 2023
Reports
California’s Offshore Wind Opportunity
Development of floating offshore wind in California could create nearly 175,000 jobs, add $45 billion to the state’s economy, and produce 4.6 GW of wind energy.
February 27 2023
E2
Releases
E2: New California Rule on Clean Vehicles Smart for the Economy
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is expected to adopt the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACII) regulation, which requires all new cars and trucks sold in California to be zero-emission vehicles beginning in 2035. The rule builds on California’s legacy of ...
August 24 2022
Releases
California Oil Spill Now Threatening Businesses, Jobs and Billions Generated By Coastal Economies
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 perm...
October 7 2021
Reports
Clean Jobs California 2021
Driven by the unforeseeable impact of last year’s pandemic and resulting economic crisis, California experienced its first decline in clean energy jobs in 2020 since E2 began tracking such occupations. California’s clean energy economy employed about 480,00...
August 25 2021
E2
Reports
District-By-District | Clean Jobs California 2021
Clean Jobs California | District-By-District According to E2’s analysis, as of 2021 more than 484,000 Californians worked in clean energy and more than $102 billion in public and private clean energy related investments have been injected into the state....
August 24 2021
E2
Reports
An Economic Imperative: Climate Action in the Golden State
Summary: California is already suffering dire economic impacts from the effects of climate change, presenting significant business and economic risk to the world’s fifth largest economy. The costs of extreme climate events such as wildfires and droughts ...
August 16 2021
E2
Ceres
Investors and business leaders urge passage of California climate risk disclosure legislation
E2, a national, nonpartisan group of business leaders and investors, also sent a letter in support of SB 449 on behalf of their network of more than 2,600 California business leaders, writing: “Robust and high-quality disclosure of financial risk is critica...
May 11, 2021
Helen Booth-Tobin
NPR
(Listen) White House Is Preparing To Give Back California’s Smog-Busting Powers
DOMONOSKE: Well, it makes it clear that California does have this right that it has long had to set its own policies. Now, I spoke to Sandra Purohit, the director of federal advocacy at E2. That's a business group that supports environmental policies. And s...
April 26, 2021
Camila Domonoske
KVCR News
State Proposes Electrification of Diesel Truck Fleets to Further Smog Reduction
“‘The business community in California may not always be homogenous,’ says Andy Wunder of E2, one of the business groups that signed the letter. ‘And there is a lot of excitement from our clean energy companies and fleet owners and operators to see this Adv...
March 11, 2021
Megan Jamerson
Releases
E2: Gov. Newsom Clean Cars Announcement Will Help Environment and Economy
SACRAMENTO – Today, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced an executive order requiring all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035, setting the path for more electric and other cleaner vehicles in California. Following is a statement from Bob Keefe, ex...
September 23 2020
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PASSED: AB841 Puts Thousands of Unemployed Clean Energy Employees Back to Work
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 ...
September 1 2020
Los Angeles Times
California still doesn’t have a plan to bring back clean energy jobs lost to COVID-19
The job losses are staggering, as I explained in more detail in May. Despite a slight rebound in June, the U.S has shed more than half a million clean energy jobs in four months, out of an overall workforce of nearly 3.4 million before COVID-19, according t...
July 23, 2020
Sammy Roth
Releases
109,712 California Clean Energy Workers Have Filed for Unemployment After 4,313 New Claims in May: Report
Job losses damper fast-growing sector that employed 537,000 Californians at end of 2019 1 in 5 Californians employed in January 2020 by clean energy now out of work Before COVID-19, 3% of overall employment statewide, and 30% of state construction w...
June 25 2020
Reports
Clean Jobs California 2020
America's Clean Energy Powerhouse in the Wake of COVID-19 After 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 ...
June 25 2020
E2
Agri-Pulse
Daybreak: A California carbon farming market
CDFA considers a carbon farming market CDFA measures the success of its Healthy Soils incentives program in part by how much carbon is sequestered in the soil. Now the department is considering a proposal to monetize that benefit through a carbon offset ...
January 26, 2020
Brad Hooker
Morning Consult
2020 Not the Time to Put Clean Cars in Reverse
California’s fight against the Trump administration’s plans to roll back commonsense auto emissions and mileage standards may seem surprising to some who live beyond our state’s borders — but only if you ignore that the clean cars bill we passed in 2002 has...
January 15, 2020
Fran Pavley & Nicole Lederer
Solar Power World
West Coast legislators are at a solar crossroad
Oregon was positioned to pass a statewide cap-and-trade bill similar to California’s, which puts a price on carbon emissions and other pollutants. HB 2020 was intended to have state industries purchase allowances to determine how much pollution they’re affo...
November 22, 2019
Billy Ludt
Releases
House Protects Coastal Economies From Threat of Offshore Oil Drilling
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. Follow...
September 11 2019
Monterey Herald
Energizing California: State has half-million clean energy jobs
Clean energy jobs in California now outnumber jobs in the fossil fuel industry 5 to 1, a new study has found, an increase driven by the state’s ever-expanding renewable energy and climate laws. More than 512,000 people are employed in jobs related to cle...
August 21, 2019
Paul Rogers
Daily Democrat
California has five times more clean energy jobs than fossil fuel jobs
Clean energy jobs in California now outnumber jobs in the fossil fuel industry five to one, a new study has found, an increase driven by the state’s ever-expanding renewable energy and climate laws. More than 512,000 people are employed in jobs related t...
August 21, 2019
Paul Rogers
Releases
California Home to 1 out of 7 U.S. Clean Energy Jobs – REPORT
CA business leaders to deliver report to lawmakers in Sacramento Tuesday Clean energy employs 5X more workers as fossil fuels in Calif. Clean vehicle jobs saw 22% growth in 2018 512,934 Californians worked in clean energy in 2018 San Francis...
August 20 2019