Subject: [big campaign] Obama to Showcase Green Jobs, Economic Recovery Plan at Stop in Ohio
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To: "EconomicRecovery" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:02:17 -0500
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 16, 2009
CONTACT: Josh Dorner, 202.675.2384

  Obama to Showcase Green Jobs, Economic Recovery Plan with Stop at Ohio
                                  Factory
           Facility Shows Potential of Economic Recovery Package
          to Promote Clean Energy, Revitalize U.S. Manufacturing

Washington, D.C.—President-Elect Barack Obama will tout his American
Recovery and Reinvestment Plan in Bedford Heights, Ohio at the Cardinal
Fastener & Specialty Company, an expanding company with innovative
production practices that manufactures parts used to construct wind
turbines.

The visit comes just a day after the House of Representatives released its
proposed economic recovery package.  The proposal outlined approximately
$100 billion in direct spending and incentives for clean energy, the
retrofitting of public buildings and public housing, low and
moderate-income home weatherization, clean water and environmental
restoration projects, energy efficiency, smart grid, and mass transit
projects.

          Statement of Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director

"Barack Obama gets it.  He knows that clean energy and green jobs are the
future of American manufacturing and the foundation for a stronger America
and more secure middle class.  That is why Obama and his allies in Congress
have put clean energy, energy efficiency, mass transit, and other green
projects at center of their economic recovery plan.  This plan will ensure
that millions of Americans will have the opportunity to join the workers of
Cardinal Fastener in building the clean energy economy that will revitalize
America and help end our dependence on fossil fuels once and for all.

"Barack Obama ran on the strongest environmental platform in history, has
assembled a phenomenal team of energy and environmental advisers, and has
now proposed an economic recovery package that represents a sizable down
payment on his promise to rebuild America's economy and bring the clean
energy future to life. The Sierra Club is actively working with our allies
in Congress and is committed to putting a clean, green economic recovery
package on Obama's desk as soon as possible."

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David Willett
National Press Secretary
Sierra Club
(202) 675-6698 (w)
(202) 491-6919 (m)
[email-masked]
www.sierraclub.org
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