November 3, 2009: Strong Job-Creating Energy Efficiency Measures Must Be Part of Climate Bill
A coalition of nearly 200 organizations (including the Apollo Alliance) sent a letter to Sen. Barabara Boxer, D-Calif., asking that important new energy efficiency provisions be included in the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.
Prominent climate change denier, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., says his plan to boycott this week’s Environment and Public Works Committee mark-up of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act has unanimous Republican support on the committee. Democrats have suggested they may move forward with the bill regardless of Republican absence.
Apollo Alliance Chairman Phil Angelides praised the unlikely alliance between Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in an op-ed in Roll Call, calling it a crucial step toward achieving a clean energy, good jobs economy that protects and creates jobs, enhances national security, and reduces climate-changing emissions.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar hosted a Clean Energy Economy Forum yesterday, focusing largely on public lands’ potential to create green jobs. Salazar also announced that he expected a decision on the controversial Cape Wind project - which could be the nation’s first offshore wind farm - to be made by year’s end.
Its Getting Hot In Here reports on a series of youth-led clean energy forums taking place across the country.
The Department of Energy gave $5.5 million to the Automotive X Prize, which awards grants to start up companies developing automobiles that can achieve a minimum of 100 miles per gallon.
Presidential Climate Action Project President William Becker published the first in a series of Road To Copenhagen articles.
The commercialization of methanol fuel cell-based energy charging devices is moving forward.
AFL-CIO Now Blog has some highlights from last week’s Building the New Economy conference held in Washington, D.C.
–Christopher Greenspan
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