Washington, D.C. — As the Trump administration eviscerates domestic progress on the climate crisis, a new analysis from the Center for American Progress calls for a new effort to rethink and expand the solution set for climate change and working people.
“The United States requires nothing less than a fully reimagined clean industrial policy—one that is rooted in the values of supporting American workers, addressing the global climate crisis, eradicating toxic pollution, and ending environmental and human rights abuses,” the analysis says.
CAP Senior Fellow Mike Williams and Senior Fellow Ryan Mulholland argue in favor of a clean industrial policy that both supports industry and works toward securing healthier communities, sparking domestic clean technology expansion, and making major strides in the fight against the climate crisis.
To achieve this, the United States must first rethink its obsession with competitiveness. Instead, the country must reorient itself toward sufficiency, innovation, and collaboration. As opposed to a focus on establishing dominance, this new clean industrial policy should focus on how the United States can coordinate and collaborate across the world.
Read the analysis: “An Argument for a Clean Industrial Policy—and Against Competitiveness as an Organizing Economic Principle” by Mike Williams and Ryan Mulholland
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