New Report Shows Why the 44th President Must Put America on the Clean Energy Path
Des
Moines – Environmentalists are urging all of the presidential
candidates to pledge to put America on the clean energy path.
Documenting the need, viability and support for an aggressive clean
energy agenda, Environment Iowa released a new report by Environment
America entitled, Clean Energy for America: Why the 44th President Must Put America on the Clean Energy Path.
“American
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 Ben Praster with Environment Iowa. “All of the candidates
for president should pledge to make big, bold clean energy initiatives
a centerpiece of their environmental and economic policies.”
The
new report documents the enormous potential for clean energy solutions
such as developing homegrown energy resources, such as solar, wind, and
biomass power, and energy efficiency. The report provides a “top ten”
list of the most important policies that the next president should
champion 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.
“The next president must
prioritize harnessing America’s abundant clean energy resources and
vast reserves of energy efficiency,” said Praster. “It would be highly
irresponsible for the next president to pass up the environmental
benefits and economic opportunities our nation will see by taking
action put America on a clean energy path.”
Environment
America 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.
Environment
Iowa is a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting New
Hampshire’s air, water and open space. Environment America is the
national office for Environment New Hampshire and the more than two
dozen affiliated state-based environmental groups.
