Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
President Obama, along with 13 of the country’s largest companies, announced a number of impactful measures that represent forward progress on climate action. The business pledges reinforce our commitment to climate change and to facing it head on.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
This week, the Senate Finance Committee approved legislation that would revive some very important clean energy tax credits. Approval by the Finance Committee is just the beginning though.
Blog / Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure
What do Boston, New York, Indianapolis and Syracuse all have in common? They’re all cities part of the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) methane leaks interactive data map of where the methane leaks are located in a given city.
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The opinion piece, “Let our Cities Move,” in Wednesday’s New York Times by Mayors DeBlasio of New York City and Cornett of Oklahoma City underscores the critical importance of reinvesting in America’s transportation infrastructure.
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Investments in clean energy technologies for cars are creating jobs. Most recently, Alcoa—with the assistance of a loan from the Department of Energy—is expanding a Tennessee aluminum manufacturing facility and adding 200 jobs.
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
To build a strong competitive modern economy its not enough just to use the latest, best, cleanest technology, we also have to invest in people, plants, and technology. That’s what the Department of Energy’s ATVM program is doing around the country.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Around the country, companies are taking steps to become more energy efficient and produce less of the pollution driving climate change. The Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference is proud to have two of it sponsors recognized forr their climate leadership.
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
President Obama kicked off a three-day trip with a visit to a Ford plant in Detroit yesterday.The lede that has been buried about this comeback is that we’re making landmark steps forward on the environment and energy security.
Blog / International Climate Agreements
From Rio to Kyoto, Bali to Copenhagen, and Durban to Paris, we wind up with structured climate agreements that are supposed to lead to final agreements (but haven’t done so just yet). Maybe in Paris?
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
We have the tech savvy to build state of the art vehicles, transit, rail, roads and vehicle management systems and to innovate in city planning and logistics in ways that could slash congestion and routinely enable ultra-rapid people andpackage delivery.