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5/12/2020 Treasury Secretary Attends Roundtable Discussion on Green Manufacturing Jobs in Minneapolis U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Press Center Treasury Secretary Attends Roundtable Discussion on Green Manufacturing Jobs in Minneapolis 1/28/2010 TG-521 Geithner Tours Honeywell Factory, Meets with Local Business, Labor Leaders, Industry Representatives and Elected Officials MINNEAPOLIS – On the heels of the President's State of the Union call for a new jobs bill to jumpstart private sector job creation, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner traveled to Minneapolis today to meet with local business and labor leaders, industry representatives and elected officials to discuss the work being done in Minnesota to create green jobs. After touring facilities at Honeywell International, Inc., a company considered to be a leader in the implementation of manufacturing efficiency measures, Secretary Geithner participated in a roundtable discussion hosted by the company and the Mayors' Green Manufacturing Initiative. During the roundtable, the group discussed how investments in clean energy and energy efficiency present significant opportunities to create green manufacturing jobs in Minnesota and nationwide while helping move the country toward a green economy. Secretary Geithner also announced that the Administration's budget, to be released next week, will expand the Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit by $5 billion. This program provides a 30 percent tax credit for investments in the factories that will make the products to power the clean energy economy. In the process, it is helping assure that America leads the world not in just reducing greenhouse gases to protect the environment, but in making the products needed to accomplish that reduction. A full list of roundtable attendees is below. "We hope Congress will move quickly to pass a jobs bill including credit and tax cuts for small businesses; investments in innovation including clean energy technology; investments in road, bridge, rail and port projects; and policies to spur more exports of American manufactured products," said Secretary Geithner. Following the roundtable discussion, Secretary Geithner had lunch in Minneapolis with local business leaders from Cargill, Cuisine Concepts & Franklin Bakery, General Mills, Hemisphere Restaurant Properties, Honeywell, Hormel Food Corp, and Land O'Lakes. ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS R.T. Rybak Mayor of Minneapolis Chris Coleman Mayor of St. Paul Rep. Keith Ellison Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Betty McCollum Minnesota Fourth District Roger Fradin President and CEO, Automation and Control Solutions, Honeywell David Foster Executive Director, Blue Green Alliance Lois Smith Partner, Smith Partners Robert Elde Dean, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota Tom Gunkel CEO, Mortenson Consctruction Randy Hagen President, Solar Skies Charles Hayes Vice President, Organizational Performance, SAGE Electrochromics Red Heitkamp Director of Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Remmele Engineering Jon Hjelm Vice President, Clean Technology and Renewables Investment Bank, Louis Jambois President, Saint Paul Port Authority George Garnett President and CEO, Summit Academy OIC, Co-Chair HIRE Minnesota Brad Lehto Chief of Staff, Minnesota AFL-CIO Tom Lambrecht Sustainable Development Leader, Great River Energy Mark Lofthus Director, Business and Community Development Division, Minnesota DEED Gregg Mast Senior Program Manager, BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg521.aspx Piper Jaffray 1/2 5/12/2020 Harry Melander Gail O'Kane Mike Christenson Mike Harley Jeremy Kalin Milt Nordmeier Lois Quam Cora McCorvey Treasury Secretary Attends Roundtable Discussion on Green Manufacturing Jobs in Minneapolis Executive Secretary, Saint Paul Building and Construction Trades Council Education-Industry Partnership Manager, Emerging Technologies, MN State Colleges and Universities Director, Community Planning and Economic Development, Minneapolis Executive Director, Minnesota Environmental Initiative Minnesota State Representative Secretary-Treasurer, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1145 Founder and Chair, Tysvr, LLC Executive Director, Minneapolis Public Housing Authority ### https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg521.aspx 2/2
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