American Clean Energy and Security Act

26/06/09 17:37
This historic bill promises to transition the United States to clean energy, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and revitalize American industry. Thanks to our combined advocacy efforts, measures on green job training, job quality standards, and community access to green jobs were added to the bill. Now ACES includes significant opportunity for communities that too often languish at the margins of American prosperity. Through ACES, low-income communities will be able to access quality clean energy jobs, and the training required to prepare them for those jobs. Today, the vote was down to the wire.  Dozens of undecided Representatives were bombarded by calls from constituents, up until the final hour. Thank you so much for your timely and crucial engagement. Through grassroots mobilization, partnering with a range of with diverse organizations, and the strong support of a few Congressional champions, we were able to secure these two crucial equity provisions in the bill: 1. $860 million allocated to the Green Jobs Act! 2. Local access to quality jobs, through a green construction careers-demonstration program. Green For All is proud to have fought with our champions on the Hill, especially Representatives Rush, Cleaver and Luján, for these critical provisions. We also thank the numerous civil rights, labor, environmental, social justice, faith, and community organizations who joined us in calling for a better, more equitable ACES. Passing the House was a HUGE and victory for us, but our work is not yet done. Now it is the Senate's turn to craft its version of the bill.  After that, the two chambers will come together and pass a final bill, to be signed into law.  The Senate is expected to begin its work on the bill in September. You better believe that we will need you then, and that we will be pulling out all stops to make sure that that version of the clean energy bill does right by our communities and workers. I am in awe of what we accomplished. And I am filled with gratitude for you, and everyone who is in this movement for an inclusive green economy together. And, I am looking forward to the next stage of this fight, with the renewed conviction that together, we can make history. In gratitude, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins Chief Executive Officer Green For All

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