Los Angeles, C.A. – Environment California today in Los Angeles
urged all of the presidential candidates to pledge to turn things
around and put America on the clean energy path. Documenting the need,
viability and support for an aggressive clean energy agenda,
Environment California released a new report by Environment America,
Clean Energy for America: Why the 44th President Must Put America on
the Clean Energy Path. In addition, a roadmap of clean energy actions
for the 44th President’s first 100 days was released, Putting America
on the Path to Clean Energy: A Presidential Plan of Action for the
First 100 Days.
“California voters have the right to know where
the candidates stand on one of the most critical problems facing the
country: our addiction to dirty energy,” said Jeremy Mills Federal
Field Organizer for Environment California. “America’s next president
must follow California’s lead and make big, bold clean energy
initiatives a centerpiece of their environmental and economic
policies.”
The new report, Clean Energy for America, documents
the enormous potential for clean energy solutions, such as solar, wind,
and biomass power, and energy efficiency and highlights the dire need
for America’s next president to put the country on a true clean energy
path. The report, along with the roadmap paper, provide a concrete list
of the most important policies that the next president should initiate
to bring greater energy independence and more jobs to the United
States, solve global warming, and put America back in the lead in
technological innovation.
Environment California is calling on
all of the presidential candidates to make a pledge for clean energy,
promising to, if elected, meet all future energy needs with clean,
renewable energy and employ these policy recommendations soon after
entering office. The campaign has been following the presidential
candidates throughout all the early primary states in the country.
