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by Betsy Kraat
Metro Green+Business
Feb-1-2010
WASHINGTON--Nearly 100 organizations in the renewable energy, energy efficiency and environmental arenas -- representing hundreds of companies and tens of thousands of workers and citizens -- are joining forces to turn February 1-5, 2010, into Clean Energy Week. The week is focused on the national imperative to enact comprehensive clean energy policy -- including climate solutions, renewable energy and energy efficiency programs -- as a means of creating vast numbers of new jobs, ensuring U.S. global leadership in the emerging clean energy era, enhancing our security and preserving our planet for the generations to follow. The organizers of Clean Energy Week assert that comprehensive clean energy policy will create good American jobs while making America a world leader in clean, healthy and safe energy production. They point to an analysis from the University of California at Berkeley, which found that the clean energy legislation adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), could create up to 1.9 million jobs between its enactment and 2020. In addition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that ACES would reduce CO2 emissions by 1 billion metric tons in 2020 alone, the equivalent to taking 200 million cars off the road for one year. A Washington, D.C., news conference on February 1 will launch Clean Energy Week, followed by numerous workshops, rallies and outreach activities on Capitol Hill and across the nation's capital as well as breakfast, lunch and dinner gatherings and receptions. Clean Energy Week.
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