Apollo Alliance Unveils Five-Point Plan to Boost Clean Energy Job Growth by More Than 1.2 Million
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December 3, 2009
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Proposal Emphasizes Short-term Job Creation, Reducing Dependence on Foreign Oil
SAN FRANCISCO - The Apollo Alliance released a clean energy investment plan today that will create up to 1.2 million domestic jobs while increasing U.S. energy security and climate stability. The release of Apollo’s 5-point plan coincides with today’s urgent White House jobs summit and amid intensified talk by Congressional leaders of an emergency jobs bill.
“America is facing twin crises of economic instability and a global clean energy race that is quickly leaving us behind,” said Phil Angelides, chairman of the Apollo Alliance. “By making targeted investments in our transportation infrastructure, energy efficiency and renewables, and domestic clean energy manufacturing, we will create jobs, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and help restore America’s leadership in the global clean energy marketplace.”
Apollo’s job creation recommendations - for inclusion in a larger Congressional and administration plan to spur economic recovery and create jobs - include:
- Creating 255,000 jobs by driving short-term investment in efficiency and renewables in ways that will leverage private capital in the long term.
- Creating 278,000 jobs by laying the groundwork for a 21st century transportation system.
- Creating 700,000 manufacturing jobs (and an additional 1.9 million indirect jobs in related industries) by supporting American manufacturers in retooling and expanding their operations, and positioning domestic clean energy manufacturers to compete in the global marketplace.
- Creating a large-scale financing mechanism that drives investment and creates jobs researching, developing, and manufacturing the technologies and products of the clean energy economy.
- Creating 31,000 jobs by putting Americans back to work serving their communities and preparing a workforce to build the clean energy economy.
The plan calls for investments of approximately $60 billion in the program outlined above.
“While we must take immediate action to create jobs, these actions must be combined with comprehensive energy and climate policies that encourage public and private investment in the clean tech sector,” said Angelides.
In October 2008, Apollo released the New Apollo Program, a comprehensive strategy for generating broad economic prosperity, energy security and climate stability. Earlier this year, Congress invested more than $100 billion in renewable energy development, transportation projects, energy efficiency and weatherization, technological research, and workforce training as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This down payment on the transition to a clean energy economy has already resulted in the retention or creation of more than 640,000 jobs, according to the federal government’s Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.
The Apollo Alliance is a coalition of unlikely and diverse interests - including labor, business, environmental, and community leaders - advancing a bold vision for the next American economy centered on clean energy and good jobs.
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