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What States Gain and Lose Under Proposed US Senate Climate Change Bill

Fabiola Carrion on May 17, 2010 - 12:45pm
After years of states leading the fight to promote clean energy and reverse climate change and the House passing an energy bill last year, U.S. Senate leaders have finally introduced climate change legislation, the American Power Act (APA).  The bill is lengthy and complex with compromises that many leading environmental groups object to, although other groups have more positive evaluations of the bill as a flawed, but important step forward.

Progressive States Network Applauds FCC National Broadband Plan

Charles Monaco on March 16, 2010 - 12:08pm
03/16/2010
The Progressive States Network applauds the Federal Communications Commission's efforts to partner with state leaders in order provide universal broadband service to the American people. State legislators are ready to work with their federal counterparts to guarantee high-speed broadband to all residents of this country.

Labor, environment groups push 'green' broadband

Anonymous on March 4, 2010 - 3:15pm
Labor and environmental groups joined with the U.S. government on Thursday to promote high speed Internet access and related technologies to create green jobs and help lift the United States out of recession.

Networking the Green Economy (Executive Summary)

03/04/2010 Report Release Event | Press Release | Executive Summary | Report in HTML or PDF

Executive Summary

Networking the Green Economy:
How Broadband and Related Technologies Can Build a Green Economic Future

Public Transit Best Vehicle for Economic Recovery

Fabiola Carrion on January 7, 2010 - 5:23pm
An overseen benefit of public transit is the creation and retention of sustainable jobs.  On January 5, 2010, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Smart Growth America, and U.S. PIRG released What We Learned from the Stimulus, a study that concluded that public transportation generates more jobs than highway construction, although highway construction received more American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds than public transit. 

State Leaders Weigh in on Final Health Care Reform Bill

PSN on January 7, 2010 - 3:57pm

Eye on the Right: Businesses Split over Climate Change

Caroline Fan on October 22, 2009 - 1:04pm
The debate over clean energy is ripping open divisions in conservative business lobbies.  Debate on federal climate change legislation has led an increasing number of businesses to leave the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, and other business associations because of those organizations' stances against recognizing the scientific validity of climate change. The revolt has been growing ever since a senior Chamber official called for a "Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century" to evaluate evidence of global warming.

Green Jobs Act Promises One Million Building Retrofits in New York

PSN on October 1, 2009 - 12:16pm
The Green Jobs / Green New York Act (A8901 / S5888), which passed both the New York Assembly and Senate, could be a model for other states.  The legislation sets the goal of implementing energy efficient retrofits in one million buildings over the next five years and creating approximately 14,000 family-sustaining jobs.  Efficiency measures will help reduce pressures on the electrical grid and provide "environmental, public health, and economic benefits."     

RELEASE: Obama concession on emissions standards highlights states' role as leaders on regulation

Austin Guest on May 19, 2009 - 5:28pm

NEW YORK — Today, Progressive States Network (PSN) lauded President Obama's decision to accept California's tough new 35.5 miles-per-gallon fuel emissions standards. The group hailed today's victory as a landmark example of states' power to set national policy by outpacing federal legislation.

Said PSN's Interim Executive Director, Nathan Newman, "The spin from auto industry executives is that Obama's decision demonstrates the wisdom of letting the federal government set a unified national standard instead of a 'patchwork' of state regulations. In fact, the complete opposite is true. If it weren't for California pushing to set standards that outpaced the Bush Administration's pitifully low ones, there would be no new regulatory framework to enact today."