The Hillary Clinton campaign goes solar
This, hopefully will be an important issue for all campaigns--and hope to see it in the upcoming debates.
The Hillary Clinton campaign goes solar
Living on Earth
August 16, 2015 · 11:00 AM EDT
Writer Adam Wernick (follow)
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Jake Sullivan, former national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speak with President Barack Obama.
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With polling that suggests two-thirds of voters want the next president to address climate change, Hillary Clinton has laid out an ambitious renewable energy plan while campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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The present front-runner for the democratic nomination declared she would take action on day one of her presidential term.
She said: “First, I will ensure we hit a target of having more than half a billion solar panels installed across the country by the end of my first term. Second, we'll set a 10-year goal of generating enough renewable energy to power every single home in America.”
Jake Sullivan, senior policy analyst for the Clinton campaign, says that amounts to about a third of all US electricity. Clinton is taking these steps, Sullivan says, because she believes climate change is one of our defining challenges.
“The first step is to defend and implement the smart environmental and public health standards, like the Clean Power Plan that President Obama has laid out, and to ensure that it is rigorously implemented and defended against efforts by Republicans in Congress to roll it back,” Sullivan says..............
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