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The year 2020 went according to no one’s plans. What started out with high expectations for increases in energy efficiency jobs and investment, with resulting benefits for cost savings and emissions reductions, quickly transformed into crisis control as COVID-19 took its toll on our health,...

Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, the Alliance has called on Congress to pass a stimulus package with strong energy efficiency provisions to counter staggering job losses in the sector while also building back better. We have prioritized strengthening efficiency tax incentives, modernizing...

Ports are essential, dynamic lifelines of the U.S. economy. Every year, the 926+ coastal, Great Lakes, and inland harbor maritime ports contribute over 26% to overall GDP (approximately $5 trillion). For every $1 billion in economic commerce, approximately 15,000 jobs are created. Today, ports...

When last month’s clean energy unemployment analysis was released, we here at the Alliance were pleased to see that after devastating job losses since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the energy efficiency sector added back 71,800 jobs in June. However, with hundreds of thousands of...

As the summer slides toward August, millions of parents are facing uncertain prospects about schools reopening and trying to figure out how to manage their work and family lives if virtual education is the only option. For parents like me whose office job allows working from home and whose kids...

There’s a terrific lyric from the late, great songwriter John Prine that goes, “We are living in the future. I’ll tell you how I know. I read it in the paper, 15 years ago.” I sometimes think of that line when I hear people talking about the coming clean energy revolution, because in so many...

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