Alana joined GPI in 2024 as a program associate on the Carbon Management team, specifically supporting the Industrial Innovation Initiative, where she helps to advance industrial decarbonization through GPI’s consensus-building approach. Alana previously worked as an account executive at Jamf, where she helped current K-12 education customers improve and scale the management and security of their Apple device deployments. Alana has spent most of her professional years working with Minnesota nonprofits, including two years as an AmeriCorps member with Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity. She holds a bachelor’s degree in community environmental studies from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Category: Press Release
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Department of Energy Announces $6 Billion in Funding for 33 Industrial Decarbonization Projects
The Industrial Innovation Initiative (I3) released the following statement today regarding the Department of Energy’s announcement that thirty-three projects were selected to receive up to $6 billion under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. The statement may be attributed to David Soll, Industrial Decarbonization Manager, Great Plains Institute: “Robust federal support to spur industrial decarbonization…
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Federal Policy Can Put American Industry On Competitive Path to Net-Zero
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 30, 2024 **Media Contacts Listed Below** Minneapolis, MN/Washington, DC (January 30, 2024) – A new report from an industry-labor-NGO partnership recommends a suite of policies to Congress and the federal administration that would set the US industrial sector on track to achieve net-zero emissions by midcentury. The 2024 Federal Policy Blueprint…
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Carbon Action Alliance Launches to Spur Carbon Reduction Efforts Nationwide
OCTOBER 26, 2022, NEW ORLEANS—The Great Plains Institute today launched the Carbon Action Alliance, a new initiative to align and grow a network of government, industry, labor, environmental, and community partners to work together toward a common goal of achieving economywide deployment of carbon management and industrial decarbonization technologies in the United States to achieve…
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Senate Passes Inflation Reduction Act
The Industrial Innovation Initiative (I3) released the following statement today regarding the Senate passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. This statement may be attributed to Gabrielle Habeeb, Project Manager for the Industrial Innovation Initiative: “After a busy weekend of negotiations, Senate Democrats passed historic budget reconciliation legislation on Sunday. The Inflation Reduction Act…