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Steelworkers, Sierra Club Join Lee Fisher in Calling for Action on Renewable Energy

For Immediate Release                                          November 2, 2006

Pittsburgh, Pa. - United Steelworkers President Leo W. Gerard and Sierra Club Executive Director President Carl Pope today joined with Lee Fisher, Democratic candidate for Lt. Governor in calling for a national commitment to develop renewable sources of energy to create thousands of new jobs, fight global warming, and help end our dangerous dependence on oil.

Such a national program could create an estimated 22,922 jobs in Ohio alone, according to a new Renewable Energy Policy Report recently released by the USW, the Sierra Club and Fisher, who said he and Congressman Ted Strickland would also pursue renewable energy policies on the state level if they are elected governor and lieutenant governor.

“This report demonstrates that a strong commitment is needed at the federal and state level. Incentives for renewable energy investments can prompt a new surge of manufacturing growth in Ohio while creating clean new sources of energy,” said Fisher, candidate for Lt. Governor and former Ohio attorney general.  “Our Turnaround Ohio plan does just that at the state level by establishing a $250 million tax-free bond plan to invest in alternative and renewable energy research, innovation and production.”