Reports
The Apollo Alliance is dedicated to advancing a broad strategic agenda for good jobs and energy independence. What inspires our mission is the conviction that working Americans do not have to choose between the economic well-being of their families, the environmental health of their communities, and the security of their country. On this page we provide resources – including reports, data, and examples of best practices – to help the progressive community unite uncommon allies behind an agenda for energy independence, good jobs, and national security.
| Make it in America: The Apollo Clean Transportation Manufacturing Action Plan
Apollo Alliance convened a task force of leading manufacturers, labor unions, and policy experts in transportation, energy, and economic development-the Transportation Manufacturing Action Plan, or TMAP, task force- to examine options for expanding the domestic production of advanced transit systems, vehicles, clean trucks, and their component parts. |
| How to Keep Creating Clean Energy Jobs in Missouri
The Apollo Alliance estimates that a cap on carbon emissions with strong investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean energy manufacturing, and vehicle efficiency standards could create up to 88,000 jobs in Missouri by 2030. |
| The California Apollo Program
The California Apollo Alliance has created a comprehensive strategy that details how to continue creating good clean energy jobs in California and move the state toward broadly shared economic prosperity, energy security and climate stability. |
| How to Keep Creating Clean Energy Jobs in Indiana
This policy brief examines the impact of several federal clean energy and climate policies on employment in Indiana. It finds that clean energy manufacturing investments; a strong renewable energy standard; vehicle energy efficiency standards; and a cap on carbon emissions could create up to 117,000 jobs in Indiana by 2030. |
| U.S. Manufacture of Rail Vehicles for Intercity Passenger Rail and Urban Transit: A Value Chain Analysis
A new study by Duke University and the Apollo Alliance shows that the U.S. rail manufacturing industry stands to undergo considerable growth in the coming years, as Amtrak upgrades its railcars and adds high-speed trains, and as lawmakers consider a transportation bill that calls for significantly greater investments in public transit, including rail. |
| Buy America: Transportation Manufacturing and Domestic Content Requirements
As the United States invests in building a 21st Century transportation system, expansion of public transit, “clean” freight movement, and high-speed rail will generate new demand for cleaner, more efficient transportation vehicles and systems. |
| An Industry at the Crossroads: Energy Efficiency Employment in Massachusetts
An Industry at the Crossroads, a joint effort between the national Apollo Alliance and our Boston affiliate, demonstrates the costs of low-wage work and the benefits of making weatherization jobs “high road” jobs. |
| Winning the Race
How America Can Lead the Global Clean Energy Economy |
| February 2010
The Impact of IMPACT: Creating Jobs in Ohio.
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| Mapping Green Career Pathways: Job Training Infrastructure and Opportunities in Michigan
The Apollo Alliance and the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce have teamed up to identify components of Michigan’s workforce development infrastructure that can be better integrated and scaled up to help fill jobs in the clean energy sector. |
| Mapping Green Career Pathways: Job Training Infrastructure and Opportunities in Ohio
Ohio: The Apollo Alliance and Policy Matters Ohio have partnered on an effort to identify components of Ohio’s workforce development infrastructure that can be better integrated and scaled up to help fill jobs in the clean energy sector. |
| Mapping Green Career Pathways: Job Training Infrastructure and Opportunities in Wisconsin
The Apollo Alliance and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWs) teamed up to identify components of Wisconsin’s workforce development infrastructure that can be better integrated and scaled up to help fill jobs in the clean energy sector. |
| Apollo’s 5-Point Plan to Boost Domestic Job Growth
To ease America’s jobs crisis, the Apollo Alliance released a plan to create up to 1.2 million jobs while increasing U.S. energy security and climate stability. |
| Making the Transition: Helping Workers and Communities Retool for the Clean Energy Economy
Helping workers and communities retool for the clean energy economy. |
| Make It In America
The Apollo Alliance has created the roadmap for revitalizing America’s manufacturing sector. Part of The New Apollo Program, our comprehensive national strategy for building a clean energy, good jobs economy, Make It In America: The Apollo Green Manufacturing Action Plan (GreenMAP) calls for federal investment in the domestic manufacture of clean energy equipment and components, and in making manufacturing plants more energy efficient overall. |
| Make It In America: Executive Summary
Clean energy manufacturing offers an opportunity to strengthen and expand America’s middle class. But there’s one big problem: we don’t make most of these systems here in the U.S. |
| High Road or Low Road?
A comprehensive report prepared by Good Jobs First, with significant contributions from the Apollo Alliance, presents considerable evidence that although a number of clean energy sector companies are cooperating with unions and providing wages, many more are not even though they receive public subsidies that require employers to pay the prevailing wage. |
| Apollo Economic Recovery Act
Coupled with other stimulus measures being considered by the President-elect and Congress, the Apollo Economic Recovery Act will give a critical jolt to America’s economy by investing approximately $50 billion to immediately create or retain over 650,000 direct jobs, and an additional 1.3 million indirect jobs in communities across the country. The Apollo Economic Recovery Act also will provide training for at least 300,000 more Americans to participate in the clean energy economy through workforce development, apprenticeship, service and education programs. |
| Imagining Newark’s Green Future
In September 2007, recognizing the great potential of green economic and infrastructure development, Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker asked the Apollo Alliance to engage the community at large and “make Newark a national showcase for clean and efficient energy use, green economic development and job creation, and equitable environmental opportunity.” |
| The New Apollo Program
A comprehensive economic investment strategy to build America’s 21st century clean energy economy and dramatically cut energy bills for families and businesses. The New Apollo Program will generate and invest $500 billion over the next ten years and create five million high quality green-collar jobs and transform America into the global leader of the new green economy. |
| The New Apollo Program: Executive Summary
The New Apollo Program will accelerate the development of the nation’s vast clean energy resources and move America toward energy security, climate stability, and economic prosperity. |
| New Energy for America
This signature Apollo jobs report describes how a massive investment in Apollo’s ten-point plan would lead to over 3 million new green-collar jobs, stimulate $1.4 trillion in new GDP, add billions in personal income and retail sales, and produce $284 billion in net energy savings – all while generating sufficient returns to the U.S. treasury to pay for itself over ten years. |
| Assessment of the Economic Impact of the Initiatives Comprising the Apollo Project
Report describes the basic modeling technique employed in assessing the economic impact of the proposed New Energy For America initiatives, which is known as input-output analysis. |
| Clean Energy Corps
America as a whole is suffering through a deep economic recession, with job losses and extreme levels of wealth inequality, rising energy prices and energy insecurity, and an increasing scarcity of hope and common purpose. Americans are looking for solutions on climate, energy and the economy. To address these intersecting challenges, we propose a national Clean Energy Corps (CEC). The CEC will be a combined service, training, and job creation effort to combat global warming, grow local and regional economies and demonstrate the equity and employment promise of the clean energy economy. |
| Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities
A coalition of non-profit environmental and economic research organizations from across the country today released a first-of-its kind guide to cities and states to enhance one critical component of America’s shared prosperity. The new guide, “Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities,” was made public at the start of the two-day national Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference in Pittsburgh. It makes a strong case that pursuing a four-step strategy – essentially a metropolitan green business and jobs development plan – provides a wealth of environmental, economic, and social benefits. |
| Greener Pathways: Jobs And Workforce Development In The Clean Energy Economy
Broadly defined, “green jobs” is not a salient category for policy innovation or workforce training. To make real progress on economic and workforce development in the new energy economy, we must focus more carefully on key clean energy sectors. Greener Pathways does just that, by detailing current economic and workforce development opportunities in three leading industries: energy efficiency, wind, and biofuels. The report also examines federal resources that can support state green jobs initiatives, including programs in the Departments of Energy and Labor, and the Green Jobs Act included in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act. We conclude by outlining a plan of action for state policymakers, highlighting policy, program, and system reform opportunities to embrace the greener and more equitable promise of the new energy economy. |
| Greener Pathways: Executive Summary
Congress and on the campaign trail—people are talking about the economic promise of clean energy. Greener Pathways puts jobs at the heart of this animated national conversation. |
| Community Jobs in the New Economy
Every city and community in the United States has some potential to capitalize on the clean energy economy through good wind or solar resources or through retrofit programs to bring old, dilapidated buildings up to energy efficiency codes. The Apollo Alliance and Urban Habitat are committed to fighting for a clean energy future that benefits not only businesses and the environment, but also workers and low-income communities. |
| Renewable Energy Potential
A Case Study of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, of all the states, is ranked sixth as the greatest potential to generate new manufacturing activity for renewable energy.In all, there are more than 2188 firms in Pennsylvania that are currently active in the industrial sectors that could supply the component parts to meet the demand necessary to deliver a wedge. In addition, the demand can support the creation of more than 42,000 new jobs related to the expanded manufacturing activity. |
| Renewable Energy Demand
California, of all the states, has the greatest potential to generate new manufacturing activity to meet the demand for clean energy products and services, according to this October 2006 study by the Renewable Energy Policy Project. In all, there are more than 5400 firms in California that are currently active in the industrial sectors that could supply the component parts to meet the demand necessary to deliver a wedge. In addition, the demand can support the creation of more than 95,000 new jobs related to the expanded manufacturing activity. Ohio’s Future in the Renewable Energy Industry
Ohio stands to receive nearly 23,000 new jobs and $3.6 billion dollars of investment in manufacturing components to supply the national development of renewables. Ohio is ranked fourth among states in terms of job gain, and fifth for potential investment. |
| New Energy For Cities
Cities across the nation are pioneering new clean energy solutions that will help end our nation’s oil addiction and create good jobs. “New Energy for Cities” highlights dozens of representative municipal programs that promote renewable power, reduce oil consumption, make buildings more efficient and promote smart growth. |
| New Energy for States
This groundbreaking report describes successful state-based clean energy solutions. It chronicles scores of proven clean energy solutions that are working in states across America. From clean power sources to fuel efficiency to smart growth, our new report highlights the best clean energy policies our states have enacted. |
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Wisconsin’s Future in the Renewable Energy Industry
Wisconsin is particularly well positioned to benefit from development in the renewable energy industry, according to this 2006 study by the Renewable Energy Policy Project.Wisconsin stands to receive nearly 14,061 new jobs and $1.6 billion dollars of investment in manufacturing components to supply this national development of renewables. Wisconsin is ranked fourth among states in terms of job gain, and fifth for potential investment. |
| New Energy for Campuses
The Apollo Alliance partnered with Energy Action to create this comprehensive guide demonstrating how campuses across the nation can be a catalyst for sustainable energy independence. “New Energy for Campuses” lays out strategies for campuses to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save money at the same time. |
| Clean Energy Strategies |
| The Ten-Point Plan for Good Jobs and Energy Independence – 2006
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| State Leadership for a New Energy Future – 2006
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Apollo’s ten-point plan for energy independence, will bring our country together to rethink and reshape our energy future, to create a stronger economy, a safer world and cleaner environment. The plan calls for diversifying our energy sources, making America less dependent on imported oil and making energy less polluting. It will invest in new technology and expand markets for American durable goods. And, it will increase construction of high performance energy efficient buildings and drive new spending on transportation and public infrastructure.
This plan outlines a comprehensive, four-part strategy for state leadership to promote clean energy and create good jobs. In the absence of strong federal action over the last six years, states have acted as laboratories of democracy, pioneering bold, new solutions to our energy challenges. They have tapped the “can do” spirit of the American people, demonstrating that we can tackle some of the great issues of our time—creating good jobs, energy independence, and curbing global warming pollution—with the right combination of leadership and know-how.
