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As Debt Ceiling Negotiations Continue, Renewable Energy Groups Urge Congress to Enact Bipartisan Transmission Permitting…

May 23, 20231 year ago Guest Contributor 0 Comments

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With permitting reform discussions occurring in Congress this week and debt ceiling negotiations continuing, leading national renewable energy organizations sent a letter to House and Senate leadership urging the enactment of bipartisan transmission permitting legislation that builds on the transformational clean energy policies included in the Inflation … [continued]

Clean Energy Trades Unite Against Harmful Retroactive Solar Tariff Threat

April 19, 20231 year ago Guest Contributor 0 Comments

“A handful of lawmakers are toying with the fate of the U.S. solar and storage industry as they threaten $1 billion in retroactive tariffs,” said Abigail Ross Hopper, SEIA’s president and CEO

Cleantech Creates Higher Paying Jobs — Millions Of Them

October 28, 20204 years ago Zachary Shahan 0 Comments

One of the greatest side benefits of climate action is that it creates a lot of jobs. Not only that — it creates a lot of well paying jobs. Solar installers, solar panel manufacturers, wind turbine technicians, electric vehicle engineers, electrical engineers, and the list goes on. But how many jobs? And how well do they pay?

500,000 US Clean Energy Jobs at Risk from COVID Effects

April 27, 20204 years ago Guest Contributor 0 Comments

COVID-19’s serious toll not just on public health but on jobs is visible all around us: across our economy, shuttered shops, idled factories, cancelled events and travel, rush hours devoid of the usual traffic.

ACORE Launches New Campaign To Reach $1 Trillion In US Renewables Investment

June 21, 20186 years ago Joshua S Hill 0 Comments

The American Council on Renewable Energy has this week announced the launch of a new campaign that aims to spur $1 trillion in new US private sector investment by 2030 for the renewable energy sector and enabling grid technologies.

Happy Responses To FERC’s Unanimous Rejection Of Coal & Nuclear Subsidy Plan Proposed By US…

January 9, 20187 years ago Joshua S Hill 0 Comments

In remarkably good news for the US energy industry, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has unanimously rejected a proposal by the country’s Energy Secretary, Rick Perry, which essentially sought to subsidise coal and nuclear energy.

Senate Tax Bill Threatens Clean Energy & Public Health, Pays Fossil Fuel Industry To Wreak…

December 4, 20177 years ago Joshua S Hill 0 Comments

Just before 2am on Saturday morning, Senate Republicans passed their $1.5 trillion Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a hastily written and hurried bill that will affect Americans all across the country and end up increasing the country’s deficit by $1 trillion, while under the radar the bill will also threaten the country’s renewable energy industry.

US Energy Bodies Unite Against Senate Tax Bill

December 1, 20177 years ago Joshua S Hill 0 Comments

With the Senate Republican tax bill racing towards a contentious vote despite numerous obstacles, a group of American energy trade bodies have penned an open letter raising urgent concerns that claim a provision, if it remains as-written, would have dire impacts on the country’s renewable energy industry.

US Energy Industry Associations Urge FERC To Reject DOE Proposal To Subsidize Coal & Nuclear

November 8, 20177 years ago Joshua S Hill 0 Comments

A diverse group of a dozen US energy industry associations which represent the oil, natural gas, wind, solar, efficiency, and other technologies, have come together to urge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reject the Department of Energy’s proposal to subsidise the coal and nuclear energy industries, claiming that such a proposal is unsupported by record and would throw a costly wrench into the nation’s electricity markets.

Opposition Grows To DOE Energy Secretary Perry’s Coal & Nuclear Bailout, Manufacturers Claim It Will…

October 24, 20177 years ago Joshua S Hill 0 Comments

Opposition continues to grow and solidify against US Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s plan to prop up the country’s coal and nuclear industries by subsidizing their supposed contribution to grid resiliency, with a diverse group of 12 energy industry associations and a large group of manufacturers calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to ditch the plan.