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Bus Tour Preaches Gospel of Green Jobs at Stops in New Mexico Today

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010   

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - They're going cross-country for clean energy, and making stops today in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Manufacturing workers from around the country on a coast-to-coast bus trip say the promise of more clean energy jobs in a climate bill currently stalled in the Senate could help turn around the state's economic woes.

Mark Mullholand is on the bus. He's with the United Steelworkers union out of Fremont, Ohio, and he says he's impressed with the potential for green jobs in the Land of Enchantment.

"You guys got some absolutely beautiful country here; there's no reason you can't have windmill farms here to produce electricity for the rest of the country. New Mexico's a fantastic state and I believe that opportunities are almost unlimited for you guys."

Mullholand says wind power components could also be assembled here, as they are in his home state.

Lauren Asplen is with the electronic workers' union IUE-CWA out of Dayton, Ohio. She says she sees enough potential in clean technologies to brush the rust off the Rust Belt, and turn the Southwest into a new hub of manufacturing jobs at the same time.

"We think that clean energy policy can revitalize the manufacturing sector and put millions of people back to work doing something that's not only good for America, but good for our environment."

The bus tour is sponsored by a coalition of clean energy workers, union members and environmentalists called the Blue-Green Alliance. They say part of the goal of their trip is to rally support for climate and energy legislation that will create American jobs.

Mullholand, Asplen, and others on the bus will be stopping for public events planned in the Duke City's Civic Plaza at 12:30 and Santa Fe's Railyard at 5:30 today.



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