EPI Says 4 Million U.S. Jobs Could Be At Risk In Climate Change Legislation

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/12079

By Doug Cunningham

The Economic Policy Institute says over four million U.S. jobs could be at risk in climate change legislation unless Congress maintains the competitiveness of energy-intensive, trade-sensitive manufacturers. EPI says any climate change bill must include rebates on the cost of emissions compliance and a strong border adjustment fee on the carbon content of goods from countries that fail to regulate greenhouse gases. United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard agrees.

: “If we don't have sufficient border adjustment mechanisms, we'll have both job leakage and carbon leakage. It's important that we have a climate change bill that won't cost us jobs. And just as importantly, won't export carbon to other countries."

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown.

: “The great risk of a weak climate change bill is U.S. industries lose jobs and climate change CO2 emissions increase as a company moves from Findlay, Ohio to Wu Han, China."

The Sierra Club’s Carl Pope says as we progress toward a greener future U.S. jobs will be lost unless global trade is equalized.

: “It's extremely important that as we move forward into a world in which we are rapidly eliminating our dependence on fossil fuels and other polluting technologies that we do so in a way which levels the trading playing field."

[Downtown Hound]

1. Billions of both jobs and lives could be at stake if we do nothing. n/t

[Richard D]

2. No mention . . .

. . . of all the possible new jobs created in a green economy?

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4. BIngo. nt

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3. "You go first." "No, you go first!"

*gasp* *choke*