Clean Energy & Good Jobs

Apollo Alliance in 2011

January 18, 2011 - * Will extreme weather events continue to become more frequent, as we fail to reduce dangerous carbon emissions that are destabilizing our climate, or will we begin to reverse the trend by reducing emissions through combined innovation, investment and good policy?

* Will the U.S. replace its dependency on foreign oil with a dependency on new fuels and vehicles manufactured abroad, or will we build a competitive domestic manufacturing sector that stabilizes our economy, revitalizes businesses, and employs millions of workers in well-paid skilled jobs?

* Are America’s inner cities faring any better in the new clean energy economy than they have in the past?

These are the questions that the Apollo Alliance will tackle head on, working with you, in 2011.

We kick things off early this year by joining clean energy activists from across the country in Washington, D.C., for the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference. Make it in America: The Apollo Clean Transportation Manufacturing Action Plan (TMAP) is the subject of one of the panels we are hosting at the conference where transportation issues are taking the spotlight. In fact, U.S Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will appear as a featured speaker addressing issues of our nation’s infrastructure challenges. Under the Secretary’s leadership, the Department of Transportation has already moved to implement key TMAP recommendations for improving U.S. manufacturers’ shot at securing federal contracts that will provide jobs for American workers . {continued}