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UPDATE: Senate Committee passes climate and clean-energy bill despite Republican boycott
Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee passed the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, despite an attempt by Republicans on the committee to derail the process. Ten Democrats, including Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, and Senator Bernie Sanders (an Independent) signed off on the bill. The bill was reported out of Committee without support from any Republicans, who have been boycotting the mark-up process since Tuesday.
In the Senate, mark up of clean-energy bill stalled by opponents.
This week the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee intended to begin its "mark up" of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. But Republicans on the committee are refusing to show-up for this process, claiming that they need more analysis on the bill from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Congressional Budget Office.
Nearly 200 organizations urge Senate to adopt energy-efficiency provision in climate legislation
Green For All is part of a coalition of nearly 200 organizations that is pressing the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to adopt a key amendment to the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. The amendment would create 1 million clean-energy jobs, by requiring utilities to invest in energy-efficiency renovations for millions of buildings nationwide. Today the coalition released a press statement. Read it here.
The Story Behind The Recovery Numbers.
640,329. That figure represents the number of jobs that have been created or saved so far through the Recovery Act, according to a report released by the Obama administration on Friday. But the true significance of this number lies in the people behind it. People like Tahlia Williams. Tahlia is a single mother of a 3-year-old son, in Brooklyn, NY. "Construction is something that I wanted to do for a long time," she said. "I had no way of knowing how to get into this field because I always heard it was a man's world."
Big week on Capitol Hill: An update on the Senate's climate and clean-energy bill
Now, things are heating up on Capitol Hill. Last week, Senator Barbara Boxer released her “Chairman’s mark” of the Senate's Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act and the Environmental Protection Agency released its analysis of the legislation. This week hearings on the bill began in the Senate, and Green For All called for an amendment that would create 1 million clean-energy jobs. We asked our Federal Policy Associate Megan Emiko Scott, who has been tweeting from the hearings all week, to explain what’s going on with the Senate bill.
Green For All takes part in task force, finds shortage of energy-sector workers
The Task Force on America’s Future Energy Jobs recently released a report which finds that the U.S. is facing a shortage of skilled workers to design and run the electric power systems of the future.
Make Florida Fair: Lessons for the green economy from the housing boom and bust.
Guest post from Green For All Academy Fellow Hashim Yeomans-Benford ----> It seems like just yesterday that Florida was at the center of a housing boom that analysts claimed would never end. Supposedly, housing values were going to rise and rise. But it was only a matter of time before the inflated financial market was brought crashing down to reality. And just as Florida had been at the center of the boom, it quickly became a center of the economic crash and resulting recession.
What is $10 worth?
It depends on what you do with it. $10 can fight global warming and poverty. $10 can invest in clean air and dignified jobs for all of America's communities. And $10 a month can help sustain the movement for an inclusive green economy. Please donate $10 a month to Green For All, starting today.
Save Coal River Mountain, endangered Appalachian hope for wind energy.
There is a new symbol of hope in the southern Appalachian coalfields, where mountaintop removal coal mining has ravaged the area, tearing apart communities and their mountains. But that symbol of hope is about to be literally blasted away.
Shut up Windmill
Whether anyone in the mainstream media wants to admit it or not, the millennial generation is the most powerful age cohort this country has ever seen. We are tech savvy and process driven, but perhaps most importantly, we embrace transparency like no other generation before us. Let's be real, what other group would be willing to throw their most personal details on a social networking platform for the world to see?
