- Lawmakers create bureaucracy to make plan for workers displaced by energy transition
Senate Bill 519 would create a new act, the Community and Worker Economic Transition Act, to provide for the creation of a state entity to develop a plan regarding, and coordinate efforts addressing, the impact on workers and communities of the societal and economic shift away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy resources.
Read it for yourself: Senate Bill 519 of 2023
The bill identifies three groups likely to be affected:
- auto workers,
- construction workers and
- energy workers.
Last week, Michigan lawmakers passed Senate Bill 271, mandating that utilities such as DTE and Consumers run on 100% clean energy by 2040.
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