Markey: Obama Employment Plan Embraces Clean Energy Jobs Potential
With Housing Efficiency Retrofits, New Jobs Will Start at Home
President Obama’s jobs plan released today embraces the potential for new clean energy jobs across America, said Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who co-authored the Waxman-Markey clean energy legislation, which includes provisions for building and home efficiency and renewable energy creation. The president’s plan includes a call for a new program to encourage energy efficiency retrofits in America’s homes, and increased industrial energy efficiency and tax incentives for renewable energy manufacturing here in America.
“By embracing the vast clean energy jobs potential here in America, the president’s jobs plan will get people out of unemployment lines and back on assembly lines making wind turbines and solar panels,” said Rep. Markey, who chairs the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. “By giving American families the opportunity to permanently reduce their energy bills through energy efficiency, we can ensure that new jobs and energy savings will literally start in the home.”
The House-passed Waxman-Markey bill includes provisions for building energy efficiency retrofits, and sets a nationwide energy efficiency standard.
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