Green Labor Journal - Working for a Substainable Future

We Support EPA Action to Clean Our Air and Spur Job Growth

By Apollo Alliance The Apollo Alliance supports the authority of the EPA under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for all the reasons we support the transition to a clean energy economy: job growth, cleaner air, less dependence on imported energy and increased energy security

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President Obama Discusses Budget Proposal

By Apollo Alliance President Obama introduces budget proposal, which would reduce federal debt by $4 trillion over twelve years.  The New Apollo Program outlines ways to create five million new, green jobs by maintaining investments in clean energy, transporation, infrastructure and innovation.

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Transit Investments Spur Job Growth

By Cathy Calfo $40 billion per year in federal investments in public transit and rail, coupled with the right policies, could create 3.7 million American jobs - 600,000 in the manufacturing sector alone

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Apollo's Clean Transportation Proposals and President Obama's Budget

By Apollo Alliance On February 14th, President Obama released his budget for fiscal year 2012.  The budget contained many cutbacks, but it also funded many transportation and infrastructure projects strongly advocated by Apollo Alliance's Clean Transportation Manufacturing Action Plan

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Investing in American Competitiveness

By Cathy Calfo Answering questions about the "new superpower" relationship between China and the U.S., Chinese President Hu Jintao said that the two countries had differences, but would "continue to appropriately resolve these according to the principle of mutual respect and consultation on an equal footing."

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Make It in America to Rebuild our Economy and Infrastructure

By Apollo Alliance For decades, "Make it in America" policies have strengthened American business and created jobs for American workers, while contributing to the future strength of our nation's vital manufacturing sector

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Clean Energy Leaders Celebrate

By Apollo Alliance Earlier this month, the Apollo Alliance hosted its annual Right Stuff Awards dinner, honoring Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Chandra Brown of United Streetcar, Bob Baugh of the AFL-CIO and Teresa Sanchez of the City of Los Angeles' Green Retrofit and Workforce Program

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The California Apollo Program

By Apollo Alliance Creating and keeping clean energy jobs in California.  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.

 

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Congress Fails to Act on Clean Energy-Climate Bill

By Andrea Buffa Many factors led to the disappointing outcome in the Senate - some out of anyone's control but some that could have been influenced

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Clean Transporation Creates Good Jobs

By Apollo Alliance Success stories: Portland streetcars, UPS hybrid-electric vehicles and Los Angeles' clean ports program.  The Apollo Alliance is developing a Transportation Action Manufactuing Plan - a national strategy to build a clean transporation system and to create quality, high-paying manufacturing jobs

 

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Oil Spill Increases Urgency for Climate and Clean Energy Action

By Jerome Ringo Oil spill should mobilize a national shift toward clean energy. Apollo Alliance board member, Jerome Ringo, wrote this op-ed three weeks after the oil rig explosion that led to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

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The Wait is Over

By Andrea Buffa Nearly a year after the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, Senators Kerry and Lieberman release clean energy and climate bill, the American Power Act.

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