Green Jobs

The Apollo Alliance, a national coalition of labor, business, community, and environmental leaders, has created a roadmap for revitalizing America’s manufacturing sector. The Apollo Green Manufacturing Action Plan (GreenMAP) calls for federal investment in the domestic manufacture of clean energy equipment and components, and in making manufacturing plants more energy efficient overall. This program could benefit tens of thousands of U.S. firms capable of making the equipment and components of the clean energy economy, the majority of them located in the twenty states hardest hit by manufacturing job losses.

In the fall of 2008, the Apollo Alliance brought together representatives from academia, industry, labor, and environmental groups to develop strategies for rebuilding domestic manufacturing for the growing clean energy economy. Members of this group include the AFL-CIO, the American Wind Energy Association, the Solar Energy Industries Association, Environmental Defense Fund, the Alliance for American  Manufacturing, the National Council for Advanced Manufacturing, the International Economic Development Council, Johnson Controls, Inc., General Motors, the Renewable Energy Policy Project, the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, and the Campaign for America’s Future.  This report reflects the results of their labor.