How Elizabeth Warren would create a clean energy economy

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By ERIC WOLFF 06/04/2019 09:30 AM EDT

Sen. Elizabeth Warren ‘s (D-Mass.) aims to turn the United States into a clean energy manufacturing powerhouse. This is Warren‘s second climate proposal, the first would require the military to make its non-combat bases go net-zero emissions by 2030.

What would the plan do?

Warren‘s three-part plan would use the federal procurement process to spread clean energy technologies and improve the lives of workers to advance clean energy, pump billions into research and development, and create an office designed to sell U.S. clean energy products around the world.

How would it work?

Warren would spend $1.5 trillion over 10 years in direct federal spending on clean energy technology in an effort to stimulate demand for American-made, zero-emission products. The program, called the “Green Industrial Mobilization”, dovetails with the economic goals of the Green New Deal by mandating that companies with federal contracts pay employees no less than $15 an hour, provide 12 weeks of paid family leave, and guarantee collective bargaining rights.

She would also pump in $400 billion over 10 years on clean energy research and development, creating a National Institutes of Clean Energy, modeled on the National Institutes for Health. New products developed in this program would then be made in the U.S.A.

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