Support for the IMPACT Act

Last summer Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio introduced the Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology (IMPACT) Act, which would:

• Establish a 2-year, $30-billion Manufacturing Revolving Loan Fund. States would receive grants to establish revolving loan funds to assist small- and medium-sized firms in retooling, expanding or establishing domestic clean energy manufacturing operations, and in becoming more energy efficient.
• Expand and focus Manufacturing Extension Partnerships on Clean Energy Manufacturing. The Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a division of the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, would receive $1.5 billion in federal funds over five years to help manufacturers access clean energy markets and adopt innovative, energy-efficient manufacturing technologies.

You can go here; http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6420/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2180 to endorse IMPACT quickly or to learn more about it.

This legislation, backed by a broad coalition of business, labor and environmental leaders, invests in America's capacity to domestically produce the equipment of the clean energy future — solar panels, wind turbines, energy efficiency systems, and the countless components that go into them. The Apollo Alliance estimates that this bill would create 2.7 million jobs.

Please join the National Association of Manufacturers, Alliance for American Manufacturing, the Solar Energy Industries Association, the Precision Metalforming Association and over 230 U.S. businesses in supporting Senator Brown's IMPACT Act.

You can go here; http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6420/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2180 to endorse IMPACT quickly or to learn more about it.

If you have any questions about the above site or this initiative, please direct them to Ron Ruggiero of the Apollo Alliance:

Ron Ruggiero
Field Director
Apollo Alliance
cell: 503-358-1816
ruggiero@apolloalliance.org