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H.R. 2847, The Green Jobs Act of 2007
- This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.
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H.R. 2847 would amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to establish an energy efficiency and renewable energy worker training program.
== Detailed Summary ==
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(LogGreen Jobs Act of 2007 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) to: (1) establish an energy efficiency and renewable energy worker training program that targets certain persons (including individuals in need of updated training related to edit the wikienergy efficiency and berenewable energy industries, veterans, unemployed workers, and at-risk youth) and sectors of the firstenergy efficiency and renewable energy industries; and (2) establish a national research program to providecollect and analyze labor market data to track workforce trends resulting from energy-related initiatives under this Act.
Directs the Secretary to award: (1) National Energy Training Partnerships Grants on a detailed summarycompetitive basis to nonprofit partnerships to carry out training programs that lead to economic self-sufficiency and develop an energy efficiency and renewable energy industries workforce; (2) grants to states to administer, in coordination with a one-stop delivery system, labor market and labor exchange programs that include funding to state agencies to identify job openings, administer skill and aptitude testing, and provide counseling and case management services; (3) energy training partnership program grants to states to administer renewable energy and energy efficiency workforce development programs; and (4) at least 10 Pathways Out of Poverty Demonstration Program competitive grants to community based nonprofit organizations to carry out training that leads to impoverished families gaining economic self-sufficiency.
Applies certain worker protection and nondiscrimination requirements to the programs carried out in this Act.
Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the bill!)training program established by this Act.
Authorizes appropriations.
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== Status of the Legislation ==
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Latest Major Action: 7/27/2007: Placed on9/11/2007: Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 167.Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
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Glenn Fieldman
February 25, 2008, 5:50pm (report abuse)I hate to resort to an over-used cliche, but this is a win-win, if I ever saw one. Scientists have underlined the rapid progress of global warming by documenting much more rapid Artic/Antarctic melting than models predict. If we're to slow it down, reducing emissions is an urgent necessity. Outsourcing has eliminated many well-paying manufacturing jobs, a traditional route to upward mobility in the U.S. Retrofitting homes to save energy and fitting them with new equipment for energy generation will create good jobs here, and training programs like this will help to ensure that people and communities that need them most will get them.
Vivian Helliwell
September 3, 2008, 10:34am (report abuse)Engaging the work force with government leadership is the best way to accomplish energy independence and reduce pollution. If the government would also change its own energy buying habits, that would be a great stimulus for the green energy business sector.