The Clean Energy Jobs Act is up for an Assembly vote today. Keith Reopelle of Clean Wisconsin says the bill began as climate change legislation, but many measures that would reduce greenhouse gasses have been stripped out. Reopelle says what remains is a package which will end up saving money for the state’s utility ratepayers and creating jobs.

“This bill in its current form will save ratepayers. . .anywhere from $1.5 billion to $6 billion over the next fifteen years,” according to analysis by the state Public Service Commission, Reopelle says. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, the state business lobby, continues to oppose the bill, saying it will have the opposite effect: raising utility rates and killing jobs. [Read more...]