Campaigns:
The Green Bank
America currently faces a dual economic and ecological crisis. The challenges of global competition and the looming climate crisis have taught us that the old 20th-century economic model built upon dirty industry cannot succeed moving forward; we must rebuild the nation's economic backbone with 21st-century technology and a clean energy infrastructure. Yet the federal government has remained stuck in the old ways of doing business - they have, to this point, woefully underfunded clean energy investment and forward-looking job creation measures...
Clean Transportation
>Transportation Position Statement
At Carrots & Sticks, our driving principle is to move America towards a 21st century-style model of sustainable prosperity. This more than anything means an America able to adapt to a changing world economically, culturally and environmentally. And few issues better fit into that model than scaling back our car culture with a much more robust national transportation policy...
Sustainable Path Forward on Climate
Our efforts are organized around three principles. Action to Address Climate Change Should:
1) Begin without delay
2) Burden polluting industries, not American families
3) Grant no exemption or exception based on political consideration
Addressing climate change is absolutely essential to the long-term prosperity of the human race, but any proposal to address this issue will have some costs to ordinary citizens in the form of higher energy costs. This means higher heating, food, electricity, and gas prices...
Support the CEJAPA!
The Clean Energy Jobs And American Power Act (CEJAPA) released by the Environment and Public Works Committee represents a major and necessary step forward to combat climate catastrophe. Please support this historic legislative effort. Senators Boxer and Kerry should be praised for not only for working to craft legislation to address climate change, but also for addressing some of the unresolved issues in the American Clean Energy and Security Act. These include:
•Strengthening the 2020 targets. Setting strong short-term emissions reductions targets is essential both to address catastrophic climate change before irreversible damage occurs, and to facilitate international agreement on a global emissions reductions strategy.
•Dedicating guaranteed revenue to clean transportation. The transportation sector produces around a third of carbon emissions. Green transportation must be a fully funded priority to most efficiently address this challenge.
•Preserving the regulatory authority of the Environmental Protection Agency. Reducing carbon dioxide pollution is not only an essential public goal, but also an extremely complicated one. The Environmental Protection Agency brings world-class expertise and experience to this issue, and its role should be preserved and more clearly defined by legislative action.
Please support and defend these priorities, and help lead the Senate in this historic effort to stop climate change.