New Paper lays out a Clean
Energy Action Plan for the 44th President’s First 100 Days in
Office
A coalition of environmental, public health and clean
energy businesses is urging the presidential candidates to pledge to turn
things around and put America on a true clean energy path. The coalit
ion
gathered today at Sunset Park to release a new Environment America paper, Putting
America on the Path to Clean Energy: A Presidential Plan of Action for the
First 100 Days, laying out the immediate steps the 44th president
should take to put America on a path toward true clean energy and energy
independence within the first 100 days in office.
“The next president will face an
unprecedented energy crisis and boundless clean energy opportunities when they
enter office in 2009,” said Melisa Stodieck with Environment
America. “Americans are hungry for leaders who understand these challenges and
who have the vision and commitment needed to launch America on a clean energy
path. This paper lays out what putting that vision and commitment to work looks
like within the first 100 days in office.”
The paper, released today in Nevada, lays
out twelve achievable yet ambitious actions – ranging from increasing energy
efficiency to installing more solar power – that the next president should, at
a minimum, take within the first 100 days in office. Environment America, along
with a growing coalition of organizations, is calling on the presidential
candidates to take a pledge for clean energy, promising to, if elected, meet
all future energy needs with clean, renewable energy.
“The next president must prioritize
harnessing America’s abundant clean energy resources and vast reserves of
energy efficiency beginning with the inaugural address next January,” said Scot
Rutledge, Executive Director of The Nevada Conservation League. “America can no
longer afford to pass up the tremendous economic opportunities of a true clean
energy path. The right policies will both restore our environment and put
more money in American's pocketbooks.
Putting America on the Path to Clean
Energy closely follows an Environment
America report, Clean Energy for America: Why the 44th President
Must Put America on the Clean Energy Path that lays out a broader
course of action to meet America’s future energy needs with energy efficiency
and clean, renewable energy.
Read the report.
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Environment America is a nonprofit
organization dedicated to protecting America’s air, water and open space. With
affiliated state-based environmental organizations throughout the country,
Environment America works at both the federal and state level to improve the
quality of our environment and our lives through independent research,
practical ideas and broad-based educational campaigns.
