Repower America

There’s no question that America has the technological know-how to meet 100 percent of our energy needs with clean, renewable energy. Wind turbines and solar panels can supply limitless clean, renewable energy to power and heat millions of homes and businesses. We can make high performance energy efficient homes that generate their own clean power and dramatically reduce our energy consumption.

With the war raging in the Middle East, the economic downturn, and global warming threatening our future, we cannot wait. Repowering America with 100 percent clean, renewable energy is the most effective way to improve our energy security, jump-start our economy, and avoid the worst effects of global warming. We need to start now. That’s why we’re calling on congress and the incoming administration to make energy efficiency, expanding our public transportation, deploying renewable energy technology, and reducing the pollution that causes global warming central elements in America's economic policies.

Americans want real change that creates jobs and preserves our environment. State officials have been leading the nation. Environment America helped persuade 28 states to require a growing amount of their electricity come from renewable resources. Congress is now beginning to act. Last year, Environment America helped move congress towards a new energy future by approving $78.6 billion in funding for clean energy, energy efficiency, and green transportation through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. That was just a first step- we need to do much, much more. Environment America's Repower America campaign is promoting a national Renewable Energy Standard (RES) that would require the nation’s utilities to get more of their electricity from clean, renewable energy like wind and solar.  In addition we are working to increase the development of a green skilled workforce, increased building efficiency, and the rapid deployment of renewable energy like offshore wind, so that we can reduce pollution and jump-start our economy.