Budget Reconciliation Ideas to Create Millions of Jobs and Combat Climate Change
Top 3 vote-getters:
Contributor: Sara Neff
Summary: Calls to expand the AmeriCorps and planned Civilian Climate Corps Program to include activities related to buildings retrofits. This would create >25,000 good-paying “green” jobs for more Americans, reduce the participating buildings’ energy consumption by 10-20%, and help households and small business owners save money.
Contributor: Colin Bishopp
Summary: Proposes to amend the SHELTER Act to remove the incentive cap, include more allowable retrofit measures, and ease restrictions for eligibility. Investments into resilience retrofits would save lives, save money, reduce carbon emissions and potentially create millions of jobs in the construction and manufacturing sectors.
Solar, Weatherization, and Electrification Package (SWEP) for Existing U.S. Homes
Contributor: Charles Kutscher, Ph.D.
Summary: Proposes a pilot program in which a subset of WAP-eligible buildings also receive a balanced package of low-embodied carbon energy efficiency measures. Together with financing mechanisms (such as a low-interest loan or a property-assessed clean energy, or PACE, program), this package will help establish the industry to cost-effectively convert homes from natural gas to electricity. Combining solar and electrification with weatherization up front is much more cost-effective than electrifying later.
Nominees:
Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Carbon Neutral 'Boost’
Contributors: Sadie McKeown, Atalia Howe, Danielle Donnelly, Paul Ciminello
Reforming the EV Tax Credit to Benefit Domestic Manufacturers and a Broad Consumer Base
Contributors: Daniel Kammen, Ph.D., Natasha Vidangos, Ph.D., Andrew Salzberg, Tom Van Heeke, Kelly Fleming, Ph.D., Joel Levin, Kevin Vincent
Production Tax Credits to Jumpstart a US Clean Hydrogen Industry
Contributors: Solomon Goldstein-Rose
Financial Incentives to Spur Deployment of Direct Air Capture, Carbon-to-Value & Negative Emissions Projects
Contributors: Abigail Regitsky, Preeti Kanther, Mike Weiner, Nicholas Eisenberger
Expand regulatory pathways and fund research and development for next-generation zero-emissions aviation technologies
Contributors: Jennifer Macedonia, Carl Lennox, Madison Freeman
Extend and Refresh Building Efficiency Tax Incentives (45L, 25C, 179D)
Contributors: Ben Evans, Lowell Ungar, Ph.D.
DOE Grants to support the hiring of industrial plant “energy managers” to increase energy efficiency
Contributor: Lowell Ungar, Ph.D.
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