RELEASE: CAP and Rewiring America Announce Plan To Decarbonize Households, Offer Rebates To Switch From Gas to Electric Appliances
Date: June 3, 2021
Contact: Sam Hananel
Washington, D.C. Today, the Center for American Progress and Rewiring America released a new plan that would offer Americans incentives to switch from gas to electric appliances to make a difference in fighting climate change and air pollution.
The plan to have households replace just four appliances heat pump space heaters, heat pump water heaters, induction cooktops/ranges, and upgraded breaker boxes would also create millions of new jobs and lower monthly bills for most Americans.
With long-term federal infrastructure investment, schools can deliver critical health and learning benefits to students while supporting the transition to a 100 percent clean energy future.
The Path to Higher, More Inclusive Economic Growth and Good Jobs Getty/Justin Sullivan
Julia Cusick
Introduction and summary
Congress has passed massive COVID-19 relief legislation. Most of the economic discussion surrounding President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) focuses on its delivery of urgently needed help to struggling families, businesses, and state and local governments. The primary impact of this legislation is thus on the demand side of the economy.
1 People, businesses, and state and local governments will get more income and therefore raise their spending easy enough. But the ARP should also be seen as an important first step in tackling the lackluster supply side of the economy. An economy can only enjoy healthy, stable growth that generates sufficient jobs and resources for broadly shared prosperity if both supply and demand go up.
How Infrastructure Reform Can Prioritize Ocean Climate Action
April 26, 2021, 9:01 am Getty/Mario Tama
A woman rides on a tour boat as a container ship is offloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Terminal Island, California, March 2020.
Sam Hananel
Ari Drennen
Introduction and summary
Now is the time to invest in the United States’ coastal communities and ocean. Historically, the ocean has been central to the U.S. conception of infrastructure; early cities were built in naturally sheltered bays or on the banks of tidal rivers to provide safe harbors for ships.
1 Today, ocean-based climate solutions have the potential to provide up to one-fifth of the reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions needed globally to limit the world’s temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, which scientists say is necessary in order to lower the risks associated with climate change.
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