The Environmental Defense Fund has launched a new ad with Braddock Mayor John Fetterman, claiming carbon caps could offer relief to former steel towns.

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Novi, Michigan, a Detroit suburb, will be home to the state’s first wind turbine manufacturing plant, a facility which is expected to create 250 manufacting jobs, The Detroit News reports.

Global Wind Systems Inc. will be investing $32 million in the maker of delivery-ready, large-scale wind turbines.
A new state law that will require the state to draw at least 10 percent of its energy from alternative sources by 2015 helped spur the investment. Since its passage last year, more than two dozen alternative energy companies have emerged across the state, according to …

I’ve been meaning to post several Detroit-related items this week:
First, earlier this week, the Detroit papers reported that the city’s public schools are in serious trouble – even more serious trouble than usual.
http://www.freep.com/article/20090401/NEWS01/90401134
“After months of financial projections, independent audits and declarations of financial emergency, the state-appointed financial manager for Detroit Public Schools submitted a report to the state today that paints a historically dire problem,” the Free Press reported.
It gets worse – “DPS will have to cut thousands of jobs and close as many as 50 schools over the next …

Politico argues that the carbon caps proposed by Obama’s budget will be good for the Midwest, despite the resistance from manufacturers.
A study by the Environmental Defense Fund identified 1,200 companies in 12 manufacturing states that would grow and create new jobs under a federal cap and trade system.
Read about it at lesscarbonmorejobs.org. 
Michigan company Dowding Industries is hiring laid-off auto workers to build wind turbine components. In Pennsylvania, blacksmiths are finding jobs constructing parts for windmills, the article reports.
The Obama Administration sees an opening for cap-and-trade legislation in Congress via these stories …