Bracken Hendricks 🌲

Building a just & thriving clean energy future, one project at a time. CEO, Urban Ingenuity. Co-Founder, Evergreen Action. All views my own.

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

I've been quiet on Twitter lately, but I must celebrate the life of @WSpriggs. Bill's passing is a tremendous loss. He was a powerful advocate, thinker, mentor and friend who moved the field of labor economics. I'm so grateful to have known him. @AFLCIO @EconomicPolicy @HowardU

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

I'm honored to officially become the President Pro Tempore of the Senate today. It's not lost on me the significance of what it means to be the first woman to serve in this role. This is another sign that slowly but surely, Congress is looking more like America.

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

Truly a trail blazer. Thank you @SenStabenow for being among the 1st in Congress to understand deeply how clean energy can be an engine of good industrial jobs for US workers. Thanks too @SkyePerryman for all your vision and leadership. It’s a joy knowing you.

[Skye Perryman (she/her) @SkyePerryman]

20 yrs ago, my first job in DC (thx @HendricksB 😉) was w/ the @ApolloAlliance. @SenStabenow was an early supporter of the good jobs that could be created w a clean energy agenda when the prevailing wisdom pitted the issues against each other. Such a trailblazer in so many ways🙌🏽

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

Thrilled @IngenuityPower is joining @dcwater @DCSEU & @DOEE_DC Dir. @TommyWells w/@NHTCommunities @SunLightGeneral & @KIPP students MON(12/19) at #BrentwoodReservoirSolar. This project will support 500 families with 50% cuts to energy bills & launch https://t.co/or7oYZzTDv fund!

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

Great thread from @SamTRicketts on the connection between 1) new climate and infrastructure bills, 2) executive action, and 3) the power of states, as we get to work building a better economy.

[Sam Ricketts @SamTRicketts]

Now that Congress has passed the transformational Investment Reduction Act, the next chapter in US climate policy will revolve around 3 key areas: IRA implementation (IIJA, too), President Biden's use of executive action, and state action.

Lets talk about how these relate.🧵

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

@keya_chatterjee So, so sorry Keya. Sending you all my love.

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

@keya_chatterjee So sorry Keya! Sending healing thoughts your way, and thank you for the PSA.

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

Well said Kate. Amazing to finally put the Apollo clean energy investment vision into action. It’s time to get to work building a better economy!

[Kate Gordon @katenrg]

More than 15 years ago, @PhilAngelides @HendricksB @borosage @DanCarolDC and so many more of us started the Apollo Alliance with the crazy goal of investing $300B over 10 years in #highroad clean energy jobs. And here we are today! Happy #InflationReductionAct!

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

Interested to hear the latest thinking on policy and strategy for moving @JoeBiden's #climate investment agenda from these world class climate leaders later today on this @EvergreenAction call. @HeatherMcTeer @jadebegay @leahstokes & @SamTRicketts

https://t.co/MsaKYhWFsE

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

… grateful to @SamTRicketts @leahstokes @LenaMDC @jamalraad… and also to you @heatherclimate & all those philanthropic partners dedicated to movement building for real solutions & transformative investment. The work continues!

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

Reversing climate crisis means growing a better economy, strengthening democracy & building power. @EvergreenAction moved that work forward with deep investment, tax and regulatory plans & organizing to make them law. Leaving it all on the field indeed & showing what is possible.

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

Reversing climate crisis means growing a better economy, strengthening democracy & building power. @EvergreenAction moved that work forward with deep investment, tax and regulatory plans & organizing to make them law. Leaving it all on the field indeed & showing what is possible.

[Evergreen Action @EvergreenAction]

The climate investments in Build Back Better are fully paid for and funded for ten years. It’s time for @POTUS and Congressional leadership to get back to work and find a way to deliver real climate action.

If they don’t, their chief legacy will be failure on climate change.

[Sam Ricketts @SamTRicketts]

No, on climate we cannot just pivot to executive action.

Aggressive exec action is important. Biden’s going to need to use it in a wide number of areas.

But its not a toolbox that includes hundreds of billions in bold and equitable investments building our clean energy economy.

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

Manchin's take on climate measures are misleading : NPR https://t.co/orhlFccofv

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

This is an interesting campaign to bring transparency to an important regulatory agency. Down ballot is where the real work gets done. Worth watching and tracking how it unfolds.

[Luke Warford 🚂 @LukeWarfordTX]

🚨🚨🚨This year, Texans froze and our planet burned because the Texas RAILROAD COMMISSION didn’t do its job.

Together, we can turn the lights on in one of the shadiest agencies in the country & save our planet, but we need your help---> https://t.co/l8x8Gzkk4s

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

Here's a great list of powerful voices for climate justice to support today. I would add @UPROSE for their tireless work and mighty impact shifting the debate on local power, off shore wind, clean energy jobs, and resisting gentrification. https://t.co/joRdXZhXIz

[Evergreen Action @EvergreenAction]

BIPOC and low-income communities are hit first and worst by the climate crisis. On this Giving Tuesday, we would like to uplift the tireless work of organizations who are leading on environmental justice+equity within the climate movement. A 🧵

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

Great to join @CeresNews' Steven Clarke in talking about #ESGInvesting & #jobs in a #cleanenergy economy @AtlanticLIVE.

[AtlanticLIVE @AtlanticLIVE]

.@IngenuityPower’s @HendricksB talks about the challenges we face in retraining the workforce for clean energy jobs. Live at #TAF21

[Bracken Hendricks 🌲 @HendricksB]

Climate #Risk is structural economic risk -- Pure and simple. This is a great explainer from @LenaMDC & @EvergreenAction. Worth watching if you don't mind thinking...

[Evergreen Action @EvergreenAction]

Big banks have invested $3.8 trillion into fossil fuel projects since the Paris Agreement was signed just 6 years ago. Now, federal regulators must act, rein in these risky investments, and protect the stability of our financial system. Learn more:

[Evergreen Action @EvergreenAction]

.@SecGranholm to @JayInslee: Governors who have state-level Clean Electricity Standards “can point to them as having attracted investments and having created jobs… and we just want to put that on steroids on the federal side" by passing a CES through reconciliation.

[Julian Brave NoiseCat @jnoisecat]

Beaming with gratitude for @leahstokes, @SamTRicketts, @arjjacob, @JesseJenkins, @jamalraad, @EvergreenAction, my team at @DataProgress—especially @x3Marcela_ and @danielledeis—and many others who have worked tirelessly to get us this far. We're not there yet, but this is big!!