WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Sen. Peter Welch issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, this week joined Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Senate Democratic colleagues, and labor leaders to discuss the future of America's energy workforce, policies that support clean energy and manufacturing jobs, and the impacts of the Trump Administration's actions on workers. Senator Welch highlighted the need for Congress to invest in career and technical education opportunities to expand America's clean energy workforce.
"Congress pla...