“I will refrain from commenting because I had a leading role in getting that process started”, Hillary Clinton said.
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Clinton announced a plan to install half a billion solar panels throughout the U.S. during her first term and, ten years after conceivably taking office, to have enough renewable energy capacity to power every home in the country.
More details of Clinton’s climate change agenda will be released over the next few months.
Does Clinton support or oppose the Keystone XL oil pipeline?
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a campaign event Sunday, July 26, 2015, at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The California-based Steyer hosted a fundraiser for Clinton in May.
Hours after Hillary Clinton delivered a speech Monday outlining how she would combat global warming as president, the Democratic presidential contender was caught on video boarding a private jet.
Climate activists are also looking for the Democratic front-runner to put some distance between herself and her record at the State Department, which issued a series of studies finding no significant environmental obstacles to approving Keystone.
“The reality of climate change is unforgiving-no matter what the deniers say”, Clinton said at a campaign stop at the DART Central Station, a LEED Platinum-certified building, in Des Moines.
Clinton also hinted that her plans would impose changes on the coal industry, though she also pledged the government’s help for workers to make the transition. On Monday, Clinton said that the pipeline should “run its course”.
In other news, three super PACs supporting Rand Paul in the Republican presidential primary said they raised a combined $6 million through June 30, mostly from deep-pocketed libertarians.
“Real leadership means forging public opinion”. “Every Democrat should follow his lead and take a stand to commit to ending our reliance on fossil fuels”.
If elected president, O’Malley reiterated that he would double America’s energy efficiency within 15 year.
The presidential choice furthermore established a target to create adequate amounts of alternative energy that might power each house over the U.S. next decade pledging to own after she’s decided into workplace, over fifty per cent of a thousand solar power panels to be installed countrywide within four decades.
Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon estimated the 10-year cost of the grant program would be $60 billion, which he said would be offset by raising taxes on the oil and gas industry.
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Heather Taylor-Miesle, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund, said her group is “excited about” the opening bid from Clinton, while acknowledging that “we have to deal with oil and gas” and that environmentalists won’t know how to judge the candidate’s plan in that department until she reveals it.
