Jim Jeffords, R-Vermont, author of the Clean Energy Act, a bill to clean up the polluting power plants, joined PIRG in releasing the report.
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The clean energy act changes the focus back to reducing emissions.
Marzian says she has no expectations that the Clean Energy Opportunity Act will pass this year, but that there is more dialogue now than there has been in the past, and more communication between the coal camp and the environmentalists.
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And as you saw in the President's statement today and as you've seen in the investments that we've made in clean energy through the Recovery Act, creating a marketplace for clean energy will create jobs.
Yet while the White House report highlights the considerable clean energy momentum established by the Recovery Act, it also inadvertently raises the specter of an impending clean tech funding cliff which risks sending U.S. clean energy industries into deep freeze as stimulus funds begin to expire over the coming months.
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These are just two of the many clean energy investments in the Recovery Act.
We made the largest investment in clean energy in our history through the Recovery Act.
One year later, because of the clean energy investments in the Recovery Act, he has instead added about a dozen new workers, and expects to hire about a dozen more by year's end.
You talk to the wind industry or the solar industry, if we hadn't passed the Recovery Act and all the support for clean energy, a lot of them would have completely gone under and we would have been ceding leadership as we already have, unfortunately, to a lot of countries like Spain and Germany and Japan that are doing a lot more work on it.
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Kerry and Lieberman have apparently been waiting for a sign from above to release their climate and clean energy jobs bill, the American Power Act.
It includes the investments that this President made through the Recovery Act in lithium battery technology and other means of clean energy.
Beyond RE-ENERGYSE, the federal government should work to expand these programs into a clean-energy education strategy on par with the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which helped reposition the U.S. in the space race and achieve revolutions in information technology.
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We have already invested through the Recovery Act in probably the biggest clean energy investment in American history.
Because of this, we need continued dedication to forward-looking clean energy policies that will complement the American Jobs Act, as outlined in our Jobs21!
On June 26 the House passed the 1, 300-page American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 by a hair's margin (219 to 212).
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has funded breakthrough innovation and new growth industries that are driving down the cost of clean energy and building the foundation for competitive 21st century U.S. industries, according to a new White House report released today on the impacts of the U.S. stimulus bill.
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Because of the Recovery Act, we have finally jumpstarted the clean energy industry in America, and made possible 200, 000 jobs in the clean energy and construction sectors.
First and foremost, the Recovery Act, we had an historic investment in clean energy development and research.
In order to not be -- not simply take the dependence of one and move it to a proximity closer, we have to invest heavily in a clean energy economy, largely what was done through the Recovery Act, but creating a marketplace for that to continue is tremendously important.
It guarantees rolling back what is left to be spent in the Recovery Act will stop important projects dead in their tracks, like clean energy projects.
That's why the Recovery Act that we passed back in January makes the largest investment in clean energy in history, not just to help end this recession, but to lay a new foundation for lasting prosperity.
Look, first of all, understand that the Recovery Act, what we passed last year, represented the single largest investment in clean energy in history, by far.
Shrouded under the ever- expanding blanket of the Clean Air Act, it is being applied to validate an unprecedented regulatory takeover of carbon-emitting energy and construction industry permitting.
As we call on Washington to act, we can also call on each other to create jobs and spark the clean-energy economy of the future -- an economy that works for everyone.
The Senate is now poised to act before the August recess, advancing legislation to respond to the BP oil spill and create new clean energy jobs.
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With the American Power Act, also known as the Kerry-Lieberman Bill, Rowe is reaping the benefits of his clean energy strategy and will continue to see them if the bill passes.
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