Excited to announce SSCC, a new 5-month leadership program by Indiana Conservation Voters CAC Indiana, @standmighty, & @IndustriousLabs in NW Indiana! Join us to develop your steel stories and advocacy skills, supporting sustainable steel and good-paying union jobs. Apply: forms.gle/UkjXApMLcJ2FhK…

Kentucky could land a 1,000-job aluminum plant, but only if it is willing to replace its #coal plants with wind and solar. courier-journal.com/story/news/loc… via Courier Journal

States passing laws to delay the retirement of aging coal plants, encourage new gas plants and cap renewables are planning for the past, not the future. WV, KY, UT are risking loss of new economic opportunities to protect a coal sector that will be gone in 10 years at most.

If the steel industry was a country, it would be the THIRD largest polluter.

“We have the technology to revolutionize the steel industry. Now it is just an implementation problem” - Jon Gordon, CALSTART
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Much is at stake to get Century Aluminum's green plant up & running. Clean & affordable ⚡️ is THE way to power the smelter, create thousands of jobs, and secure #aluminum supply chains—critical to supercharge the #green economy.

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Great opportunity to work with an amazing team that’s focused on winning ambitious outcomes while stewarding a healthy organizational culture.

We're hiring a Communications Director! Maybe that's you??

Salary, benefits, and details all posted here: boards.greenhouse.io/industriouslab…

GOOD NEWS⬇️⬇️⬇️

The U.S. is no longer absent from the race to green steel.

U.S. Department of Energy awarded $1 billion to help the steel sector decarbonize.

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🏗️Century Aluminum's new green plant would emit far less pollution than the aluminum facilities of today.

Arianna Skibell writes: 'Clean energy requires a lot of aluminum, which needs a lot of clean energy to be produced without planet-warming emissions.'
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'Additionally, the DOE funded a new Century Aluminum smelter, the first primary aluminum facility to open since 1980. Since the U.S. makes the cleanest aluminum in the world, this new facility will help reduced imported emissions by doubling the size of domestic production.'

🌦️Climate & industry go hand in hand—not only is industry a big emitter of greenhouse gases & local pollutants, it's also essential in producing the materials needed to build clean energy products. Learn about the role of #aluminum in a zero-carbon future.
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'These invisible emissions represent an untapped opportunity to address climate change and help California meet its recent commitment to slash methane pollution 40% by 2030 compared to 2013 levels.'

More from Gina McCarthy in Mercury News 👇

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'However, translating ambition into actuality will depend on whether Century can find enough green power to run its new green smelter.'

Andy Home writes✒️ on the Green Aluminum Smelter project⚡️ reuters.com/markets/commod…

'As the industry rapidly transitions to EVs, pressures are growing to manufacture them with clean materials. Automakers therefore have an opportunity to drive the decarbonization of three industries at once — not only automotive, but steel and aluminum...' latitudemedia.com/news/ev-makers…

The waste sector is the THIRD largest source of methane globally.

We can’t afford to continue to ignore the harmful impacts of landfills. U.S. EPA needs to prioritize stronger landfill emissions rules.
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In a new op-ed from Yong Kwon, the senior policy advisor on the Sierra Club's industrial transformation campaign: the barriers to decarbonizing the steel and aluminum industries are increasingly more due to market dynamics than to the technology itself. latitudemedia.com/news/ev-makers…

Landfills are a key driver of planet-warming methane emissions.

Our recent analysis found that 75% ❗❗of industrial methane emissions in Texas come from the state’s municipal solid waste landfills.

✍️Rebekah F. Ward bit.ly/3TAxYx5

With new $$ from U.S. Department of Energy, Century Aluminum is building the first new primary #aluminum smelter in 45 years!
✍️ Carolyn Fortuna
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#Opinion in Lexington Herald-Leader on a new low-carbon #aluminum facility: 'A new plant like this would be huge for our state. It will create thousands of new, high-paying, family-supporting jobs and a substantial boost to the local economy.' kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/…

Read this piece from Maria Gallucci on why the US must grow clean aluminum production.

“It makes a lot more sense to clean up the industry domestically, have short supply chains and invest in jobs so that we have the material that we need” - Annie Sartor
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