Our Solution

Clean Tomorrow is creating the policies and building the political support necessary to develop and deploy the technologies that will reduce emissions in heavy industry and ensure the United States leads the next industrial revolution.

By 2033, industry in the United States is set to be the highest emitting economic sector. Under the current policy framework, additional reductions are unlikely to materialize across chemical production, cement manufacturing, iron and steel production, and food production.

Figure: Industrial Decarbonization Through 2035

We need new policies to speed the deployment of off-the-shelf technologies in industry and to develop innovative ways to meet this challenge. These industries will need additional support to deploy clean technologies available today while innovating, developing, demonstrating, and deploying new solutions to grow our industrial economy.

Recent laws spurred investments in industrial demonstration projects, large and small. They increased incentives for important complementary solutions like carbon capture and storage and clean hydrogen production. Evaluating the impact of these investments on the viability of industrial clean technology deployment and on the market demand for low-carbon industrial products is crucial to inform better industrial policy levers.

Cooperation between the federal government, state and local governments, communities, existing industry, and new players in these sectors will be critical to our success. Leading the next industrial revolution is going to require policies that move clean industrial innovations from discovery to deployment at a scale never seen before.