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Merkley wants Senate jobs bill to help finance building efficiency retrofits 4
Posted 1 day, 2 hours ago Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met with the chairs of six committees that might have some hand in developing the clean energy bill. The question at hand was whether the bill should be pushed back in favor of a short-term focus on finance reform, jobs, and the deficit. Though John Kerry argued vigorously that the clean energy is a jobs bill that won't grow the deficit, it looks like he lost out and there will be some kind of standalone jobs bill in the interim. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is now advocating that any jobs bill include support for building retrofits to create jobs and reduce energy bills.
The $9 Billion Man

Clean energy opportunities 0
Posted 1 day, 19 hours ago Earlier this month, the Department of Energy announced $155 million worth of grants to clean energy projects -- specifically targeted to CHP, waste heat recovery, and district energy. There's an even better backstory.
USGBC jobs finds green building to support millions of U.S.jobs 0
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago
GOP witness details harsh impact Bush-Cheney policies on jobs 0
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Young, Green, and Out of Work 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
I Got Yer Jobs Right Here

Neutralizing Big Oil’s climate-bill attack, with investment in manufacturing 2
Posted 3 months ago
Creating a green jobs economy is our best chance to revitalize America's manufacturing base, and we'll likely lose political support to address the climate crisis if we don't also seize this economic opportunity.
Green jobs: debunking the debunkers 5
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
In response to my recent article digging into green jobs, a reader sent me a copy of a March paper by Andrew Morriss et al at University of Illinois that attempts to debunk green jobs myths. While I see major flaws in most green jobs papers I read, many of the myths cited by this paper are irrelevant to what I consider the most important questions.
Buy It

The Informal Economy: Michael Jackson Edition 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The mass memorial for the recently departed mega-star breathed surprising life into the underutilized downtown of Los Angeles.
Late night with climate change

Top 10 reasons the Senate should strengthen and pass the Waxman-Markey bill 2
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
It is vital to enact comprehensive energy and climate legislation this year -- to help deliver economic, energy, and climate security. As President Obama has said, the choice is "between a slow decline and renewed prosperity; between the past and the future." The time to act is now.

The American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), which passed the House at the end of June is an excellent starting point for this urgent task. Here are the top 10 reasons the Senate should strengthen and pass ACES.
Cough TBI Cough: "I know this will be a close vote, in part because of the misinformation out there”

Obama: Let’s “spark a clean energy transformation… Make no mistake: This is a jobs bill.” 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
If you could CEQ her now

Coal is here to stay, says Obama’s chief environmental adviser 2
Posted 5 months ago
"Clearly coal is a part of our energy mix now and it's likely to be so in the future," says Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In an exclusive interview, she also talks about economic stimulus, green jobs, and mountaintop-removal mining. Watch the video and read the highlights.
Putting the economy in the green

New studies tout the economic benefits of green jobs 0
Posted 5 months ago
Investments in clean energy -- such as those encouraged by the American Clean Energy and Security Act -- would produce several times as many jobs as the same amount of money spent on traditional fossil fuels, according to new studies released Thursday by a coalition of environmental groups and research institutes.

Lower-income Americans in particular would benefit, according to a report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which was commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Green for All.

Upgrading the U.S. economy to rely less on fossil fuels would create a surge of manufacturing and construction jobs that would include renovating homes and buildings to be more energy efficient, tapping clean energy sources such as wind and solar to produce more electricity, and building better transit systems and other infrastructure improvements.
American Clean Energy and Security Act will drive clean energy investments

News flash: More jobs and lower energy costs good for low-income Americans 0
Posted 5 months ago
TO: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, Heritage Foundation and other industry groups predicting the end of life as we know if America takes action on climate change

FROM: Natural Resources Defense Council, Political Economic Research Institute/University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Green for All and the Center For American Progress

Subject: Inconvenient New Study Debunks Your Scare Tactics about the American Clean Energy and Security Act

It's time to face facts. You are just wrong when you forecast massive job losses, economic dislocation and harm to low-income Americans if the U.S. takes action on energy/green jobs issues. Contrary to what you've been suggesting, it turns out that "down is not up" and "night is not day": More green jobs resulting from tackling climate change is a good thing for America - including lower-income households.
And the 'Willie' goes to ...

UPDATE: Reuters and Greenbiz.com attack all federal clean energy technology development 1
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
If they gave out awards to columnists for advice that would cause the most harm to the nation if anybody actually followed it, then Greenbiz.com, Reuters, and Fortune contributor Marc Gunther would be a serious contender with his astonishingly uninformed piece "Beware of Obama's ‘Battery Gold Rush'." Let's call this award the "Willie" named after George Will.