How to Implement Industrial Policy
The last year has seen unprecedented legislative wins for green industrial policy. Now, the conversation has turned to implementation—and what the Biden administration can do even in a divided government.
In a new issue brief, Joel Dodge, Joel Michaels, and Roosevelt’s Lenore Palladino and Todd N. Tucker explore how, “with or without cooperation from Congress and state and local government,” the Defense Production Act (DPA) can facilitate clean energy projects.
DPA powers, they explain, can be used to “accelerate the clean energy transition while constraining corporate extraction and building worker power—in particular by overriding contrary federal, state, and local laws that privilege corporate short-termism.”
Read more in “Progressive Preemption: How the Defense Production Act Can Override Corporate Extraction, Boost Worker Power, and Expedite the Clean Energy Transition.”
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