MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today delivered his weekly radio address celebrating National Clean Energy Week and highlighting the launch of the new U.S Climate Alliance Governors’ Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative.

Bolstered by robust federal investment by the Biden-Harris Administration toward building a national clean energy economy, the Alliance’s new initiative aims to expand the clean energy workforce nationwide and support job and apprenticeship training in innovative industries and technologies by training 1 million new registered apprentices by 2035 across the Alliance’s member states and territories. Additional information on the Governors’ Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative and Gov. Evers’ role in the U.S. Climate Alliance is available here.

Audio File of Radio Address.

Hey there, Wisconsin! Governor Tony Evers here.

I was proud to proclaim this week National Clean Energy Week as we celebrate and highlight the work we’re doing as a state to build a clean energy economy here in Wisconsin.

This work has included joining the U.S. Climate Alliance in 2019 and establishing our goal to be 100 percent carbon free by 2050.

We also created the Office of Sustainability and Clean Energy and released the state’s first-ever Clean Energy Plan.

This plan provides a roadmap for the state to lower energy bills and prices at the pump for Wisconsin families, promote energy independence by reducing reliance on out-of-state energy sources, create an estimated more than 40,000 jobs by 2030, and invest in job training and apprenticeship programs in innovative industries and technologies.

Through these efforts, we’re supporting green jobs, bolstering the health of our state, ensuring the clean, sustainable future Wisconsinites deserve.

And this week, I was glad to join the U.S. Climate Alliance in announcing our new Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative.

This initiative will grow career pathways in climate and clean energy fields and jointly train 1 million new registered apprentices across the country by 2035.

This is all part of my work as the first governor in the Midwest to join the executive team of the U.S. Climate Alliance, which is a bipartisan coalition of two dozen governors all committed to confronting the climate crisis.

Folks, we shouldn’t have to choose between mitigating climate change and protecting our environment, and good jobs and economic development, and these efforts are proof that we can do both.

Happy National Clean Energy Week, Wisconsin.