Clean Industry Means Good American Jobs

By 2030, the industrial sector is expected to be the largest greenhouse gas emitter. This includes everything that it takes to produce, process, and assemble manufactured goods. Industrial products are key to the clean energy transition – for example, steel and aluminum are needed for everything from wind turbines to solar panels to electric vehicles.

We need to make sure these materials are made, but we gotta make them sustainably.

In an effort to fight climate change and protect their own manufacturing interests, nations the world over are closing their markets to polluting industrial goods, with the European Union and the UK moving forward with a tax on industrial goods the U.S. exports.

We need to protect American industry and good manufacturing jobs.

That’s why the U.S. Government is using its large buying power to create a market for the cleanest industrial materials. And billions of dollars more is being invested so American companies demonstrate and deploy industrial breakthroughs at home.

Tell your Member of Congress to protect and expand investments in cleaning up the industrial sector to protect union jobs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and support the transition to a clean energy economy.

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The U.S. Government has a storied history of fostering technological innovation. From the space race and the Internet to semiconductors and battery technology, American policies have inspired ingenuity that has reshaped the world. Despite government investments leading to innovations, we failed to keep domestic output strong, with race-to-the-bottom corporate profit seeking sending industries overseas. Now, we’re investing hundreds of billions of dollars to correct past short-sightedness. By supporting competitive and clean domestic manufacturing to make the clean energy transition in the U.S., we will create good American jobs, open international markets to our exports, and lower costs for consumers. We must act now. The European Union and the UK will soon impose carbon taxes on our exports. Meanwhile, in the private sector, the biggest companies are seeking low-carbon products. The good news is that American industry tends to be cleaner than that of our competitors. The U.S. Government must work with American businesses to verify our clean advantage so that bad foreign actors don’t question our performance. The U.S. Government is also among the largest global buyers of industrial goods like cement and steel, which are the building blocks of civilization. The government is using its buying power so that American factories profit by supplying clean materials to construction projects across the country. Finally, on a bipartisan basis, the Department of Energy is supporting the demonstration and deployment of cutting-edge industrial technologies so that our clean manufacturing advantage continues to grow. We need you to protect these investments, expand their application, and support new policies that recognize that clean American industry is competitive American industry. By manufacturing more domestically and creating good jobs, we have a singular opportunity to fight climate change driven by bad foreign actors. This is a rare opportunity to join your colleagues to assert American leadership, honor workers, avert climate change, and punish the worst players on the worldstage. Can we count on your leadership?

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