
PennFuture, a Pennsylvania-based green energy advocacy group, recently launched a campaign to protest changes to the state’s clean energy policies.
The Campaign to Protect Clean Energy and Pennsylvania Jobs will push back against planned policy revisions and organizational shake-ups in the state government, including dissolution of the state’s Office of Energy and Technology Deployment and blockage of new clean energy contracts.
Jan Jarrett, president and CEO of PennFuture, said the campaign will mobilize concerned businesses, citizens and the state’s thriving green energy sector, which has built 4,000 solar installations and 16 wind farms.
Jarrett said the policy changes being considered by the state legislature and Governor Tom Corbett’s administration will not only lead to environmental degradation but kill jobs. She said the state’s renewable energy industry, practically nonexistent 12 years ago, now employs more than 106,000 people.
Last February, President Barack Obama chose Pennsylvania State University as the venue for announcing an initiative to generate clean energy jobs and reward small business investment in energy saving technology with tax credits.

