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| Oct 9, 2026 | California and France build on a decade of cooperation with new partnership to strengthen clean energy, protect communities, and grow economic opportunity | Turning shared challenges into practical solutions
The partnership establishes a framework for cooperation across climate action and environmental protection. Priority areas include:
Protecting communities from wildfire and extreme heat. Ca... |
| Oct 5, 2026 | Colorado businesses don’t need a constitutional carve-out for methane gas (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Garvin Jabusch
This November, Colorado voters will decide on Amendment 82, a proposed constitutional amendment that would create a permanent right to buy and sell methane gas in the state. In ef... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | How one factory is surviving America’s solar policy whiplash | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Inside the vast Qcells factory in Cartersville, Georgia, workers — and a bevy of robots — move ultra-thin slices of polysilicon through a lengthy series of machines and chemical baths to get what a... |
| Sep 25, 2026 | California delegation wraps historic participation at Climate Week NYC — demonstrating strong climate and economic leadership on the world stage | CEC Chair David Hochschild joins California Attorney General Rob Bonta, New York state government officials, and nonprofit leaders to discuss state leadership on wind energy, jobs, and economic security (Credit: Lauren Beischer, IG: @lauren... |
| Sep 23, 2026 | As Trump undermines America’s alliances and energy security, Governor Newsom builds lasting global partnerships at Climate Week NYC | Supporting healthy communities
Governor Newsom also joined First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom at the Alice Waters Institute’s annual lunch honoring the Farm-to-School movement. The First Partner highlighted California’s work to connect st... |
| Sep 22, 2026 | Governor Newsom delivers $886 million in utility bill relief, with millions of households receiving an average of $75 this summer | What is the Climate Credit?
The California Climate Credit comes from the state’s Cap-and-Invest Program, which is managed by the California Air Resources Board. Companies that emit large amounts of climate pollution must purchase allowances... |
| Sep 21, 2026 | Ahead of Climate Week NYC, Governor Newsom announces California cut climate pollution again as economy keeps growing | California is delivering results
The statewide inventory, California’s annual accounting of climate pollution from transportation, electricity, industry, homes, businesses, and other sources, reflects continued emissions reductions across C... |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Governor Newsom announces $95 million plan to expand EV charging and hydrogen fueling across California | Powering the buildout: where the funding is going
Today’s approval allocates funding towards the following categories: $48 million for light-duty electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, focusing on direct current (DC) fast charging a... |
| Aug 7, 2026 | California surpasses 21,000 megawatts of battery resources supporting the state’s electric grid | For Immediate Release: August 7, 2026
California has built the nation’s largest battery energy storage fleet, with more than 21,000 megawatts of capacity to strengthen grid reliability. Batteries leverage the state’s renewable energy portfo... |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Governor Newsom announces $3,500 instant rebates now available for Californians buying their first zero-emission vehicle | When Governor Newsom took office in 2019, fewer than 700 MW of battery storage served the California grid. Today, that number stands at 21,112 MW, including roughly 18,000 MW of grid-scale storage that discharges directly onto the grid, plu... |
| Jul 10, 2026 | OBBBA has cost over US$100 billion in clean energy investment, says E2 | |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Six Emerging Environmental Entrepreneurs Selected for National Fellowship | E2 & 1 Hotels award six young business leaders $10,000 each to execute projects that advance sustainability, clean energy, & environmental policies in America.
The clean energy transition is one of the defining economic opportunitie... |
| Mar 27, 2026 | Colorado must create a stable, predictable clean energy market (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Whitney Painter
Colorado lawmakers have a pivotal opportunity to strengthen the state’s economic competitiveness during the 2026 legislative session. Two policies on the table would cut pollutio... |
| Mar 19, 2026 | California is taking Donald Trump to court for breaking the law to put polluter profits before American lives | “With the unlawful rescission of the Endangerment Finding, President Trump and his EPA have abandoned their most important mission: protecting the health and welfare of the American people. The science doesn’t lie: Climate change and GHG em... |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Donald Trump declares the Republican Party the pro-pollution party | In September 2025, Governor Newsom submitted a formal comment to the U.S. EPA opposing EPA’s proposal to reverse the Endangerment Finding. Watch his video comments and read his full letter.
The cost of Trump’s dereliction of duty will be me... |
| Sep 22, 2025 | E2: Solar accounts for more than 60% of all jobs in US renewable energy generation | |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Here’s how the Trump tax bill will impact Colorado, from Medicaid to new tax breaks to energy credits | A clearer loss for the state budget is set to come in 2027. That’s when the federal government will start reducing how much states can tax health care providers, such as hospitals. Colorado currently charges the maximum provider tax rate of... |
| May 31, 2025 | The Unraveling of Clean Energy and Academic Ties: A Dual Crisis in America | In 2025, America stands at a crossroads. The clean energy sector is facing a storm, with $14 billion in projects canceled. Simultaneously, the academic partnership with China, once a beacon of collaboration, is fraying. Both crises reveal a... |
| May 29, 2025 | $14 billion in clean energy projects have been canceled in the US this year, analysis says | “The House’s plan coupled with the administration’s focus on stomping out clean energy and returning us to a country powered by coal and gas guzzlers is causing businesses to cancel plans, delay their plans and take their money and jobs to ... |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Homeowners Take Charge: Energy Efficiency and Tax Credits Amid Economic Uncertainty | In a world where energy bills can feel like a relentless tide, homeowners are finding ways to build their own levees. With the help of tax credits, they are transforming their homes into energy-efficient havens. This trend is not just about... |
| Apr 15, 2025 | This homeowner cut her heating bill in half — and got a $1,200 tax credit | The energy efficient home improvement tax credit offers taxpayers up to $3,200 per year to offset the cost of projects like installing a heat pump or insulation.
The Inflation Reduction Act extended the tax break through 2032 and made it mo... |
| Oct 18, 2024 | Biden administration races to shell out billions for clean energy as election nears | The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved the nation’s 10th large offshore wind farm, the Maryland Offshore Wind Project, in September, reaching the halfway mark for Biden’s goal of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030. On Oct.... |
| Sep 7, 2024 | Inflation Reduction Act: US States Aren’t Using Enough of the Available Funds for Climate Action | 4 Mins Read Two years after the IRA passed, a new report found that states have only captured a tiny fraction of the funding available.
By Syris Valentine
When President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, into law two yea... |
| Aug 13, 2024 | National Politics | Red-state Republicans say they’ll defend Biden-era green jobs | Republican Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia said he’ll advocate for companies that have brought jobs to the state regardless of who is sitting in the White House next year.
Tennessee Representative Chuck Fleischmann, a Republican whose distri... |
| Mar 13, 2024 | How Georgia became America's green-manufacturing capital | This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.
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| Aug 25, 2022 | How this venture capitalist is challenging tradition to solve the diversity problem in the renewable energy industry | Morsa Images/Getty Images
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Black founders receive less than 1.5% of about $330 billion in venture capital funding in the US.
Black and Brown communities are largely excluded from the clean-energy industry.
Clean-... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | Mindful action is needed to increase Hispanic inclusion in solar energy | Working together, we can and must ensure Hispanic communities benefit from and help shape the clean energy transition.
As Hispanic Heritage Month comes to an end, we recognize the influence and contributions of Hispanic individuals and comm... |
| Oct 12, 2021 | IGS Energy Funds 10 Non-Profits Working to Advance Renewable Energy to Underserved Populations | “These organizations work hard every day in a very direct way to bring the benefits of the clean energy economy to communities and populations that have been overlooked,” Jen Bowden, vice president of Social Impact - IGS Energy
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| Jul 26, 2021 | Can food systems really get to ‘net zero?’ | Around the world, achieving ‘net zero’ emissions by the middle of this century has become a rallying cry to keep climate change in check and avoid its worst impacts.
Over 120 countries — from highly industrialized nations like Canada, Germa... |
| Apr 15, 2021 | Pennsylvania lost a quarter of its clean energy jobs in 2020. Here’s a proposal to bring them back | As of Friday, April 9, two bills had been referred to the Senate Consumer Protection Committee and House Environmental Resource Committee that could increase the number of solar jobs in Pennsylvania.
Senate Bill 501 and House Bill 1080 woul... |
| Feb 18, 2021 | Ignoring pandemic, Americans installed record amounts of solar and wind energy | Massive blackouts in the Southwest this week have thrown renewable energy into the spotlight. Some conservatives have tried to pin Texas' electricity grid failures on wind power, while industry analysts and environmentalists point to proble... |
| Jan 27, 2021 | Amazon Tops The 2020 List Of Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers | ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Dec 15, 2020 | How Biden Can Unleash $7.8 Trillion Investment And Create 6 Million Jobs By Expanding The Grid | The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a devastating blow to the economy, creating an urgent need to stimulate a sustainable recovery that creates good jobs. A new study shows building a Macro Grid across the Eastern United States could create 6 m... |
| Oct 26, 2020 | Oil, Gas Vs. Clean Energy: Which Will Have Best Jobs In The Future? | As the energy industry stands on the brink of a major transformation from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy, questions arise about the energy jobs of tomorrow: where they will be located? how secure will they be? and how much will the... |
| Oct 22, 2020 | Clean energy jobs pay more | Clean energy jobs paid 25% more than the national median in 2019, according to a new report, released by BW Research Partnership for Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), the American Council on Renewable Energy, and the Clean Energy Leadership... |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Exxon's no good, very bad week | Welcome to Insider Energy, a weekly energy newsletter brought to you by Business Insider.
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| Oct 8, 2020 | Vice-Presidential Debate Fueled By Talk Of Energy, Environment And Climate Change | SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - OCTOBER 07: Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) ... [+] and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence participate in the vice presidential debate at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020 in Salt La... |
| Sep 2, 2020 | Natural Gas Is Core To The New Energy Economy — The One Created By Joe Biden | ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Jul 16, 2020 | Morning Brief: BMW signs $2.3 billion battery deal with Sweden’s Northvolt, DOE storage challenge | BMW signed a deal with Northvolt for $2.3 billion of battery cells to power the automaker’s electric cars: Northvolt, a Swedish company started by two former Tesla executives, will manufacture the cells using renewable electricity at a new ... |
| Jun 17, 2020 | Colorado lost more than 7,000 clean energy jobs since coronavirus pandemic, industry organization says | Colorado and the country continue to lose clean energy jobs by the thousands since the coronavirus began spreading, a national industry group said Monday.
A new analysis by E2, Environmental Entrepreneurs, said the industry lost 27,000 jobs... |
| May 13, 2020 | Covid-19 wipes out twice as many US clean energy jobs as sector added in past three years | In a matter of months, Covid-19 has wiped out an estimated 594,300 clean energy jobs in the United States — more than twice the number of new jobs the sector added to the economy in the past three years. A total of 850,000 clean energy job ... |
| Apr 30, 2020 | Let’s Invest In An Energy Future That Preserves The Economy – And Life On This Planet | Getty Images |
| Apr 22, 2020 | Texas sees decline in clean energy jobs — and more losses are expected due to coronavirus | The dangerous duo of the global oil glut and the coronavirus-spawned economic shutdown already has whacked Houston's oil and gas sector. The crippling of the American economy has taken its toll on the region's clean energy industry as well.... |
| Apr 16, 2020 | Covid-19 Lockdown Could Kill 500k Cleantech Jobs | Green workers install a residential grid-tied solar array on a hillside in Malibu, California, USA. ... [+] (Photo by: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Universal Images Group via Getty Images |
| Apr 15, 2020 | 106,000 American clean energy jobs were lost in March | The dramatic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have hit every sector of the U.S. economy hard, with renewable energy being no exception. Today, BW Research released an analysis of unemployment data that shows more than 106,000 clean energy w... |
| Sep 18, 2019 | New report finds that Houston leads in Texas for energy efficiency jobs | The Houston metro area has plugged into the power of jobs linked to energy efficiency. In fact, the region is home to more than one-fourth of Texas jobs that fall into this category.
A new report shows the Houston area leads all of the metr... |
| Apr 8, 2019 | Nevada has turned around its solar industry, led the nation in clean energy job growth in 2018 | We are running out of Nevada stock images.
Remember when Nevada randomly tried to kill its residential solar industry? Since then, Nevada has reversed course and been a clean energy policy leader. As the Nevada Legislature considers legisla... |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Energy storage, EV jobs boom in the United States | While the once-steady rise in solar employment has flattened and even declined slightly over the past two years, job creation in other clean energy sectors is booming. A recent report by Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) finds that U.S. jobs... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | From the editor: EIA versus the future | It’s that time of year again. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its Annual Energy Outlook (AEO), providing a projection for the future of energy to 2050.
Before I get started on the deep pr... |
| Jun 21, 2018 | Senate Passes Farm Bill with Incentives for Farmers to Build Soil Health, Sequester Carbon | The Senate Agriculture Committee passed its version of the 2018 Farm Bill this week including provisions aimed at promoting soil health.
These provisions include funding for a new USDA pilot project that will incentivize farmers in a dedica... |
| Dec 7, 2006 | Moving toward electric cars – and zero carbon | [Editor’s note: We asked Felix Kramer to provide an update on prospects for an affordable hybrid-electric car. GM has just agreed to make one.]
These days, the feeling of urgency for green-tech reminds me of the intensity I saw five years a... |
| Sep 4, 2006 | Silicon Valley leaders prove clout on global warming bill | Turns out, a group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, including Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr, and other business folks helped tipped the balance on the landmark global warming bill passed last week.
The bill, AB 32, mandates that Califor... |
| EGEB: US energy efficiency standards at risk, South Australia’s 100% goal, Pa. solar, and more | In today’s EGEB:
US energy efficiency standards have reached a state of uncertainty due to the DOE.
South Australia plans to be “net” 100% renewables by 2030.
A study shows how much Pennsylvania has to gain from solar.
Maryland gets a tall ... |
| Why Trump and GOP attacks on IRA can’t score a clean sweep in red states | To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo
The clean energy labor market, highlighted by EV and battery tech jobs, remains a fraction of the total U.S. employment pool of roughly 160 million workers.
But it is grow... |
| EGEB: US airlines boost their 2030 target for sustainable aviation fuel by 50% | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
US airlines boost their 2030 SAF target from 2 billion to 3 billion gallons.
Clean energy has a diversity problem, a new study confirms.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-... |
| US clean energy jobs grew 3.6 percent in 2018, outnumber fossil fuel jobs 3-to-1 | A new analysis of energy jobs in the U.S. shows clean energy jobs grew 3.6 percent in 2018, adding about 110,000 new net jobs. Clean energy jobs now outnumber fossil fuel jobs by a nearly 3-to-1 ratio.
The analysis comes from nonpartisan bu... |
| Nearly 600,000 green energy jobs lost in March and April | The green energy sector has lost nearly 600,000 jobs in March and April, according to a report by BW Research Partnership. That’s 17% of the sector’s workforce. This is of course a result of stay-at-home orders due to the pandemic, which ha... |
| South Carolina GOP voters choose between presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Donald Trump | South Carolina’s Republican primary is in full swing with Donald Trump holding a significant edge over Nikki Haley in her home state.
South Carolinians’ top voter issues are immigration and the economy, mirroring major concerns nationally.
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| Short-term pain for green jobs, but there could be long-term gain | The US lost more than 100,000 green energy jobs in March due to the coronavirus shutdown, but the International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) first Global Renewables Outlook, released today, reports that if the world thinks long term, i... |
| EGEB: US govt reviews threaten offshore wind farms, Endangered Species Act, more | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
US government offshore wind farm reviews could threaten their development.
The weakened Endangered Species Act empowers dirty energy.
Carbon dioxide levels broke global records in 2018.
Pennsyl... |
