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Clinton Unveils Far-Reaching Climate Change PlanBy Trip Gabriel and Coral Davenport at the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/26/clinton-to-unveil-climate-change-plan/?_r=2
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DES MOINES Promising more than a half-billion solar panels by the end of a first term and an ambitious target of clean energy for every home in America in a decade, Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled goals on Sunday evening to reduce the threat of climate change.
She said she would continue President Obamas sweeping plan to limit carbon emissions from power plants, and announced targets that even push beyond current goals for greenhouse gases.
Mr. Obamas proposed regulations are expected to be finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency in August, and the real work of making the changes shutting down coal plans and increasing the number of renewable electricity sources would fall to the next administration.
The Clinton campaign said the goals, set out on its website in a video, were the first of a six-plank plan to address climate change that Mrs. Clinton would continue to unveil in coming weeks and months.
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gwheezie
(3,580 posts)One of my key issues.
Peacetrain
(22,881 posts)oasis
(49,434 posts)elleng
(131,253 posts)Martin O'Malley has not only done that, but he has outlined a plan that would enact emissions reductions in line with what scientists say is necessary to slow global climate changeworldwide emissions reductions of 40-70 percent by 2050and he's the only candidate to do that, too. His plan would phase out fossil-fueled power plants altogether, by midcentury. Along with the USA Today op-ed, he released a white paper further outlining his scheme."
#?OMalley2016 #?NewLeadership #?CleanEnergy
Now is the time for
NEW CLIMATE LEADERSHIP.
https://martinomalley.com/climate/
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)Vivint is offering some sort of a lease plan, but frankly I'm not a huge plan of Vivint. So I'll wait and see if there is something coming that I can use. Very excited to hear the details of the plan.
SunSeeker
(51,771 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)If Germany can do it, so should we be able to
http://theweek.com/speedreads/451299/germany-gets-50-percent-electricity-from-solar-first-time
Climate Change is the one issue if we get it wrong, it doesn't matter how right we are on any other issue.
I personally would like us to do away with oil because environmentally we are screwing everything up even more and I am not just talking emissions.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)there is a solution to the co2 problem
Allan Savory
Ted talk - desertification solution - more food - less co2
https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change
Gabe Brown
Same idea - for farms - no gmo - toward organic
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Gabe+Brown+Soil+Health&Form=VQFRVP#view=detail&mid=4145088DB3EF49DFB8CF4145088DB3EF49DFB8CF
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=gabe+brown+cover+crops&qs=AS&sk=&FORM=QBVR&pq=gabe%20brown%20cover&sc=4-16&sp=1&qs=AS&sk=#view=detail&mid=2BF7E10219DF6BE06F642BF7E10219DF6BE06F64
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=gabe+brown+cover+crops&qs=AS&sk=&FORM=QBVR&pq=gabe%20brown%20cover&sc=4-16&sp=1&qs=AS&sk=
many more - carbon binding farms
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cover+crops+sustainable+agriculture&FORM=HDRSC3
joshcryer
(62,280 posts)And there must be a committeemen to not export coal.
Unless those constraints are met then it's not very groundbreaking (and is indeed just merely the policy roadmap as is).