Green Jobs

Progressive States Network works to incentivize the demand for clean energy investment and the creation of green jobs through innovative, varied, and comprehensive green energy policies. The green economy is our opportunity to put Americans back to work: creating jobs that pay good wages and that stay in our country, setting our nation on a path to energy independence, and marking a new era of American innovation, production, and leadership.

Green Jobs Key Policies:

• Enact and improve existing Renewable Portfolio Standards and Energy Efficient Portfolio Standards
• Ensuring financial support -- in the form of revolving loan funds, on-utility bill financing, and other innovative financing mechanisms -- to accelerate the deployment of more Renewable
• Energy technologies and energy efficiency projects
• Promote Green Buildings and Schools, requiring new construction to meet pre-determined, performance-based standards, and retrofitting low-income residential buildings so that they can become more energy efficient.
• Integrate renewable sources into an upgraded Smart Grid.
• Create good, sustainable Green Jobs that will enable employees to develop, manufacture, deploy, and maintain the various elements of renewable sources and smart grid infrastructure.
• Promote green collar Workforce Development and training, where we build a trained workforce that earns competitive wages, fosters new skills, builds a career ladder, and keeps jobs in America