What do you want Obama to do about energy and the environment?
Supporters of President-elect Barack Obama are coming together on Dec. 13 and 14 to discuss what ideas they have. His transition team will be collecting the feedback and is encouraging people to sign up to host or attend a "Change is Coming" house meeting.
This would be a good opportunity for the public to talk about the challenges the country is facing in the areas of energy and the environment and brainstorm ways to address it on the federal level (although individual and community action might be the most effective in the long run).
Check out Obama's agenda concerning these matters and let me know if you host a meeting next weekend. Three meetings are already listed for Greensboro.
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Well being that rebuilding our infrastructure is going to be a very big part of rebuilding the ecomomy a rebirth of the Smart Highways Program seems like an excellent idea.
Posted on December 6, 2008 6:30 AM
Ten Things Congress and
the New President Must
Do to Solve Global Warming
in the New Year
1. Enact science-based legislation to prevent the worst effects of global warming.
The Nobel Prize-winning U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says
that to keep worldwide temperatures from increasing to truly dangerous levels,
developed nations must cut emissions by at least 25-40% from 1990 levels by
2020 and 80% by 2050.
2. Work with other nations to reach an ambitious, science-based global warming
treaty in time for the global climate negotiations in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.
3. Make polluters pay for the right to pollute by auctioning carbon permits under
the global warming pollution emissions cap and use the revenue for public benefits.
4. Allow California and 13 other states to implement their clean cars programs,
which will require global warming emissions cuts from automobiles.
5. Invest $50 billion in clean energy and energy efficiency in 2009 and provide
no new subsidies for dirty energy sources like coal and nuclear power.
6. Use the Clean Air Act to declare that global warming pollution endangers
public health and welfare and to set standards for power plants, vehicles, and fuels.
7. Require that fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions be considered
in all federal purchasing decisions and direct federal agencies to assess global
warming impacts of their actions.
8. Use existing Clean Air Act authority to require power plants to install the
best pollution controls available to cut global warming pollution.
9. Establish a regulatory system which contains, prevents and reduces
emissions of refrigerant “f-gases,” potent chemical global warming pollutants
used in refrigeration and air conditioning
10. Establish a mandatory national energy efficiency program that targets
investment and stimulus to increase the energy efficiency of our homes and
businesses, create jobs, save consumers money and set the stage for a
sustainable economy based on clean and renewable energy.
To take action or learn more, go to
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy
Posted on December 16, 2008 3:46 PM