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Keystone XL a Job Killer, Says Cornell
Echoing some of our previous posts, the Cornell Global Labor Institute has just released it’s analysis of the job impacts from the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Their take? It will kill more jobs than it creates. Cornell says:… Read more >
Electric Vehicles’ Price at the Pump: 75 cents “per gallon”
Last week, the global price of oil rose above $105 per barrel and the national average price of gasoline hit $3.55 per gallon– the highest ever for this time of year. However, if you could plug your car into an… Read more >
Spring Greening: Obama Calls for Americans to “Get Outside!”
Spring is around the corner and Americans are excited to get back outside! The Obama Administration agrees, yesterday releasing the America’s Great Outdoors report, which serves as a blueprint for how American families can reconnect to nature. The report, part of a broader… Read more >
American-made Electric Cars: President Obama and High School Students Agree
In last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama reiterated his goal to see 1 million plug-in and electric vehicles on the road by 2015. Electric vehicles (EVs) are a great example of the potential of American innovation to… Read more >
Inner-City Youth Walking the Talk on Advanced Vehicle Innovation and Sustainability
As we head into 2011 with positive manufacturing news in the national media, industriousness and innovation at a high school in West Philadelphia shows how US leadership in clean energy and transportation technology is not just building jobs today, but… Read more >
In Cancun and Congress, Pressing for Clean Energy Jobs ASAP
As the Cancun climate talks proceed in balmy 75 degrees weather, the U.S. Senate stands on the precipice of a vote on a controversial new tax bill. Unfortunately, key omissions in both the evolving international climate deal and the… Read more >
Big Oil Cuts Jobs Again, Even as They Sponsor Bogus Job Rallies
No lie is too big for Big Oil. Their tired refrain of late is that they’re job makers. On TV, radio, in print and at bogus Astroturf rallies happening this week. We should give them a pass on all their sins:… Read more >
New Poll: Americans Know Clean Energy & Climate Action Create Jobs
A new Associated Press poll out this morning is giving a big boost to the prospects of a clean energy & climate bill in the Senate. Read more >
CBO Counts Costs of Climate Action, But Not Benefits?
If only Paul Harvey were still with us! It seems Douglas W. Elmendorf is having some trouble telling the rest of the story. The Congressional Budget Office director testified on Capitol Hill yesterday about the economic impacts of clean energy… Read more >
New Momentum for Clean Energy & Climate Action
Just got back from the big event on the East Lawn of the Capitol to unveil the Senate’s Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act! Here’s what Joe Mendelson, NWF’s global warming policy director, had to say about the bill:… Read more >
