1 / 12

REPAIR AMERICA

REPAIR AMERICA. PROTECT, PRODUCE, PROSPER.

eris
Télécharger la présentation

REPAIR AMERICA

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. REPAIR AMERICA PROTECT, PRODUCE, PROSPER The BlueGreen Alliance’s Repair America campaign is working in states around the country to educate and mobilize union members about the need to address climate change, to put Americans to work fixing energy, water, natural gas, transportation, and communications systems, and to prepare our communities for the impacts of climate change.

  2. The BlueGreen Alliance unites 14 of our country’s largest unions and environmental organizations. Through our Repair America campaign, we are committed to harnessing the power and energy of nearly 15 million members and supporters to build a cleaner, fairer economy that creates quality jobs for working people while also responding to the threat of climate change.

  3. It’s time to repair America • Fixing our nation’s crumbling infrastructure — energy, transportation, water, and buildings like schools and hospitals — is a key part of the solution, and it will create quality family-sustaining jobs. • To do this, we need to invest in our infrastructure to prepare for and help prevent climate change. The longer we wait, the more it will cost our environment, our economy and our children.

  4. It’s time to repair AmericaEnergy America’s energy transmission system needs rebuilding, we need to upgrade our buildings and water systems to use those resources more efficiently, and we need to start producing more renewable energy — and manufacturing more of the parts and components in America.

  5. It’s time to repair AmericaEnergy • Provide certainty for renewable energy manufacturers and developers by providing sustained, long-term support to develop these industries here in the U.S.; • Upgrade our buildings, factories, and homes to use energy as efficiently as possible by utilizing technologies like combined heat and power; • Provide vital investments to upgrade and enhance energy transmission (electrical grid) and wastewater and drinking water systems. • Upgrade the natural gas pipeline distribution networks, specifically those that move gas throughout our cities.

  6. Platform on industrial energy efficiency • U.S Manufacturing provides nearly 12 million jobs & $1.8 trillion in GDP • US accounts for 18.2% of global manufactured products (China accounts for 17.6%) • Energy Efficiency can reduce costs, boost productivity and efficiency within the industrial sector • McKinsey & Company’s July 2009 report: • We can reduce industrial energy consumption 21% by 2020 • Industry would save $47 Billion per year

  7. Financing & TECHNOLOGY • Improve the existing Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for combined heat & power (CHP) at Industrial Facilities • Revitalize the 48C Advanced Energy Tax Credit • Appropriate additional funds for the US Dept of Energy’s Industrial Energy Efficiency Program • Establish A Revolving Loan Fund • Extend Master Limited Partnerships to Energy Efficiency Projects • Appropriate sufficient funding in the amount of $365 million for the US Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO)

  8. Breaking down barriers and fostering demand • Build on President Obama’s industrial energy efficiency Executive Order by working to double CHP & WHR • Include industrial energy efficiency in EERS and cleaner energy standards • Incorporate Industrial Energy Efficiency into Clean Air Act Proposals • Allow rate basing to help achieve ROI • Stimulate Demand For CHP & WHR • Support Davis-Bacon Protections • Support Local Hiring Provisions

  9. Seeing the benefits first hand • United Steelworkers have seen how the addition of combined heat and power technologies to ArcelorMittal's Indiana Harbor steel facility has cut annual energy costs by nearly $20 million, while creating 360 manufacturing and construction jobs and retaining 6,000 workers at the facility by lowering production costs of steel by $5 per ton. • In Springboro, Ohio, IUE-CWA members helped one Cobasys identify $67,000 in energy bill savings through a "treasure hunt" at its advanced battery manufacturing plant. • United Autoworkers at Chrysler's truck and minivan assembly complex in St. Louis also have seen how a comprehensive energy assessment identified improvements to their boiler systems that saved $627,000 in energy costs each year and paid back investment cost in the measures in just over two months.

  10. Join the movement to • Talk to your networks. Tell them the the reality of climate change and how we can create quality jobs, reduce carbon pollution and rebuild our nation’s most basic systems. • Sign up to help your BlueGreen Alliance organizer to take action at critical moments — write a letter to the editor, email or call your local, state and federal elected representatives, or attend a training. • Go to www.bluegreenalliance.org/repair to sign up today.

  11. Join the movement to • Support the President’s Climate Action Plan; • Ensure that your community has a climate preparedness plan; • Support the 2013 National Infrastructure Bank Development Act – sponsored by Rep. DeLauro (D-CT) – as a smart approach to financing much needed repairs. • Become a Constituent Co-Sponsor of the 2013 National Infrastructure Development Act — sign up today at www.bluegreenalliance.org/cosponsor.

  12. Thank you! • To sign up for our email list, visit www.bluegreenalliance.org/join. • Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bluegreenalliance. • Follow us on Twitter at @bgalliance.

More Related