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title: "Building A U.S. Clean Manufacturing Strategy to Counter China and Tackle Climate Change"
summary: |-
  An integrated clean manufacturing strategy will pay dividends for both the economy and the global environment.
date: "2021-06-29"
issues: ["Clean Energy Innovation"]
authors: ["David M. Hart", "Stefan Koester"]
content_type: "Op-Eds & Contributed Articles"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2021/06/29/building-us-clean-manufacturing-strategy-counter-china-and-tackle-climate/"
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# Building A U.S. Clean Manufacturing Strategy to Counter China and Tackle Climate Change

The Biden administration has made climate change and reshoring American manufacturing central issues in its "build back better" agenda. To make good on its twin goals of expanding the middle class with high-paying manufacturing jobs while simultaneously creating a cleaner and more resilient economy, the administration will have to break the silos that have divided these two issues in the past. An integrated clean manufacturing strategy will pay dividends for both the economy and the global environment.

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2021/06/29/building-us-clean-manufacturing-strategy-counter-china-and-tackle-climate/*