Clean Energy Manufacturing Is Booming Thanks to Harris but Would Go Bust Under Trump

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Kamala Harris is meeting with workers at the Hemlock Semiconductor facility in Saginaw, MI, where federal investments in the CHIPS Act have created more than 1,000 good-paying jobs that will help supply critical components for a new solar manufacturing facility across the street. Harris, who cast the tie-breaking vote to triple clean energy production, create good-paying jobs, and lower energy costs, is promising to continue to build on these jobs with an opportunity economy that invests in America’s workers. Harris’ economic vision stands in clear contrast to Donald Trump, who promises to end these investments and send good-paying American jobs to China. 

Climate Power Executive Director Lori Lodes issued the following statement: “The message in the closing days of this campaign could not be more stark: Kamala Harris is meeting with the workers who will strengthen our economy and promising to continue to invest in American innovation while Donald Trump would send those jobs overseas and shutter plants in Michigan like he did in his first term. American workers can’t afford four more years of Trump playing politics with their jobs to help his billionaire donors profit.”

FACT: Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking vote for the clean energy plan that tripled clean energy production, “encouraged onshoring of clean energy industries,” and has created more than 330,000 jobs, including 21,748 in Michigan, in communities like  Lansing, Marysville, Bay City, and Detroit.  

FACT: Clean energy jobs are growing at double the rate of overall jobs, and their unionization rates are higher than those of the broader energy industry. 

FACT: The combined funding from the Inflation Reduction and CHIPS Acts will create nearly 1,300 jobs in Saginaw County, which will pay about 47% above the average wage.

FACT: Trump has spent months threatening to destroy these jobs or send them abroad again. Trump’s agenda wouldend up helping China, economists say, by jeopardizing hundreds of billions of dollars in manufacturing investments that have already been made in the United States and sending that work back to other countries, including China.”

FACT: While Donald Trump was president, his hostility towards the clean energy industry allowed China to pull ahead in EV and clean energy manufacturing

FACT: Bloomberg: “The Offshoring of U.S. Jobs Increased on Trump’s Watch