She pointed to a recent study from the Environmental Defense Fund that said EV manufacturing spurred 143,000 U.S. jobs in the past eight years.
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Nathaniel Keohane, another former Obama White House adviser and now a vice president at the Environmental Defense Fund, said experts have coalesced around the need to reduce emissions by at least 50% by 2030.
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