Editor,
Thank you representatives Speier and Eshoo for co-signing the June 15 letter to Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Hoyer, calling for legislation to protect our nascent clean energy industry. As your letter explains, the devastating impacts of COVID-19 already have resulted in the loss of nearly 600,000 clean energy jobs nationally with more likely to come. Clean energy jobs — mostly in small businesses — are being lost at a rate much faster than the national average.
Future COVID-19 relief packages must include strong protections for our clean energy economy, including wind, solar and water energy, clean vehicles, energy efficiency and energy storage. We have made a start toward building these industries through forward thinking public policies. This is not the time to let our progress go to waste. By extending existing renewable energy tax incentives and by allowing tax credits to be received as direct payments, we can protect jobs.
Additionally, please support measures to prevent fugitive methane emissions and climate-sensitive agricultural and land use policies. With targeted relief and forward-thinking public policies, we can continue our progress toward building a carbon-free economy. Our present health and economic crises, stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, must be addressed; but we must do so without ignoring the very much larger climate crisis that still bears down on us.
Alan Mattlage
San Mateo
Please purchase a Premium Subscription to continue reading.
To continue, please log in, or sign up for a new account.
We offer one free story view per month. If you register for an account, you will get two additional story views. After those three total views, we ask that you support us with a subscription.
A subscription to our digital content is so much more than just access to our valuable content. It means you’re helping to support a local community institution that has, from its very start, supported the betterment of our society. Thank you very much!
Only subscribers can view and post comments on articles.
Already a subscriber? Login Here
Sorry, an error occurred.
Already Subscribed!
Cancel anytime
Thank you .
Your account has been registered, and you are now logged in.
Check your email for details.
Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password.
An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account.
No promotional rates found.
Secure & Encrypted
Thank you.
Your gift purchase was successful! Your purchase was successful, and you are now logged in.
| Rate: | |
| Begins: | |
| Transaction ID: |
A receipt was sent to your email.
(0) comments
Welcome to the discussion.
Log In
Keep the discussion civilized. Absolutely NO personal attacks or insults directed toward writers, nor others who make comments.
Keep it clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language.
Don't threaten. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated.
Be truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone or anything.
Be proactive. Use the 'Report' link on each comment to let us know of abusive posts.
PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.
Anyone violating these rules will be issued a warning. After the warning, comment privileges can be revoked.