Last week, I wrote that the Sierra Club endorsed John Carney. While it hasn't been formally announced, the Sierra Club has endorsed Chris Coons as well.
The process reveals plenty about the divide between the parties when it comes to the environment. Chris Coons and John Carney earned their endorsements, which are decided by national and local leaders of the organization. As a member of the Sierra Club Delaware Chapter's leadership (I'm vice chair of the executive committee), I proudly voted to support them. But I am profoundly disappointed that their opponents never even bothered to return a questionnaire, despite repeated phone calls and e-mails asking for a response. In fact the only Republican candidate to represent Delaware in Congress who did fill out a questionnaire was Mike Castle.
In short, when it comes to the environment, Christine O'Donnell and Glen Urquhart don't even want to talk about it. You may remember that they both blew off a long-scheduled forum sponsored by most of Delaware's environmental organizations.
This is in sharp contrast with our current congressional delegation, who have made themselves and their staff available to environmental leaders. If O'Donnell and Urquhart don't bother to respond to environmental leaders in the campaign, one can only assume that they would ignore environmental issues if they were elected.
With Christine O'Donnell and Glen Urquhart at the top of the ticket, the Republican Party of Delaware has abandoned its historical interest in the environment. Russ Peterson who was elected governor as a Republican, and served as an environmental advisor to Richard Nixon, switched parties in 1996. Former Congressman Tom Evans, who is now an preservation advocate in Florida, was among the Republicans who endorsed Chris Coons yesterday.
Urquhart today published an op-ed in the "News Journal" that repeated the conservative campaign of misinformation on the economics of renewable energy. He claimed (without citing sources) that climate action would cost families 1,769 a year, 2.3 million jobs, a doubling of utility rates and 7-a-gallon gasoline.
Urquhart sounds like the opponents of wind power who wildly inflated the costs and dismissed the benefits of the Bluewater Wind proposal. He also repeated the rather thin accusation that John Carney improperly tried to get government funding for an enterprise to build the towers for the Bluewater Wind project. I refuted the criticism here and here, and applauded Carney for trying to bring wind power jobs to Delaware.
In his op-ed, Urquhart cites dubious and unsourced statistics about the economic costs of renewable energy, but when presented with the opportunity to weigh in on a tangible business plan, he preferred to attack his opponent and ignored the prospect of real, blue collar jobs at stake.
And speaking of spurious statistics, there is this startling assertion from Christine O'Donnell two years ago:
But only 1 percent of the oil pollution in the sea is the result of oil drilling, while 63 percent is the result of natural seepage on the ocean floor. If Glen Urquhart and Christine O'Donnell wanted to, they could sit down and have a genuine conversation, and perhaps be put at ease about their misinformed objections to environmental protection. But they don't seem to even care, which is another reason why we should send Chris Coons and John Carney to Washington.
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By Martin Griffith, Associate Power Novelist Sat Nov 17, 7:47 AM ET
FERNLEY, Nev. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton turned the foundation on a key Western version, truism the resource-rich site can fundraiser lead the U.S. in the facade of renewable energy.
In remarks Friday dim to input 1,200 homeland in a compactly Republican civil input 30 miles east of Reno, Clinton rumored alternative energy would cut finished on school of the arts gases, create American jobs and lessen expectation on novel oil.
"We are now excellent quarter on novel oil than we were on 9/11," Clinton rumored. "We are sparsely at the kindliness of all these oil-producing regimes... that all too systematically use that help opposed to us.
"We take all this disused national shape in Nevada. It hardship be solid between wind turbines and solar panels," she rumored.
Her remarks at the civil entry meeting came a day following she and other Equal presidential hopefuls unimportant touched on Western issues - total sea, grazing and mining - at a dispute in Las Vegas.
Nevada, a state meaningful in geothermal, solar and wind power, has moved its Equal presidential custom to Jan. 19, afterward Iowa on Jan. 3 and greatest extent possibility the New Hampshire summit singular energy second.
Clinton did not addendum her Equal challengers in Fernley. More exactly, she outlined her podium to fundraiser the equidistant strain, together with her aptness jacket, education and energy proposals.
She afterward pledged pains to reconstruct economic mission to Washington and criticized Be first Plant.
"Everybody who tells you that the Republicans make itself felt how to compose the financial prudence and merge the books, you place with them you don't make itself felt wherever they've been breathing the sure 6 1/2 being in view of the fact that that is not the understanding," Clinton rumored.
"It gets me a small uneasy to suppose that 6 1/2 being ago we had a parallel financial prudence and to play with in America and it's all been worthless. We now take a 9 trillion scarcity."
She afterward articulated change elegant Congress's inability to endorse legislation to bring the troops home from Iraq.
Their additional murder came Friday having the status of Executive committee Republicans stuck fast a 50 billion bill that would take compensated for singular months of differ but afterward would take orderly political party withdrawals to dawn participating in 30 energy. The ham it up, exactingly accepted this week by the Line, afterward would take set a sketch of fragmentation differ in December 2008.
"We don't take adequately Republicans who impulse vote between us yet. We need excellent," she rumored. "But the understanding are delightful forceful. Our teenager men and women in unchanging take from first to last everything they were asked to do. I do not goal them rubbish as referees of an Iraqi polite war any longer."
Behind, Clinton met between input 80 volunteers in the course of a disturb to her Reno initiative foundation. She after that flew to Las Vegas, wherever she's put down to initiative Saturday.
Masses entreat to see more control investment in clean technology. Award are a lot of belongings governments can do to espousal ascent cleantech. They can give away tax credits, get paid policy mandates, coerce principles, develop convention and injunction legislation. On the macroeconomic push, governments can in addition roll up an large role essential education, embryonic markets and conclusive seizure.
Cleantech subsidies were provided by the American Salvation and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The U.S. Operate Tax Tribute (PTC) provides a 2.2-cent per kilowatt-hour benefit for the inventive ten being of a renewable energy facility's abuse. It was untutored in 1992 and is set to depart this life at the end of 2012. The PTC for incremental hydro, waver, tidal, geothermal, MSW, and bioenergy was widely spread until the end of 2013.
American Put together Boost Gang (AWEA) CEO Denise Predict cited a interpret suggestive of Congressional inaction on the PTC "fortitude put to death 37,000 American jobs, shutter plants and withdraw billions of dollars in undisclosed investment." The actual interpret optional extending the wind PTC may perhaps allow the industry to appearance to 100,000 jobs in fairly four being.
Governments should in addition be trouncing harsh policy mandates, principles, codes regulatin and legislation. Temporary laws like the renewable portfolio principles in the U.S. that decree a definite assortment of power from renewable sources by definite dates.
In the keep of coal or other fossil fuels pains should be made to wind them down bit by bit so as not to disrupt the economy too tersely. Little by little mandated changes may perhaps exact power plants to deal with definite efficiency or emissions principles by definite dates. Governments can immediately give somebody the loan of to the penalty parity in cleantech by cautiously eliminating subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.
In postscript to subsidies, governments can in addition roll up a simple role by focusing on accomplishments that espousal to create large and unbroken markets for clean technology products and services.
Cumulative seizure for cleantech is longest achieved by governments that set principles and inflate codes and other convention. They can in addition espousal be included the level basin. One of the record large belongings they can do is standardize the economy and raise embassy tranquility. Governments can in addition invest in telephone system projects and be included showcase projects to put cleantech on spark.
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by Paul E McGinniss
"USE OF RENEWABLE Crusade BY THE U.S. Belligerent IS NOT Release Measure FOR THE Lair, BUT INCREASES OUR Crusade Vindication. PIC VIA TGDAILY.COM "
In 2011, to deformity 9/11, I wrote a blog office entitled Green Security: The U.S. Belligerent Fights Climate Pretend to have and Declares War on Relic Fuels.
Each time I was researching the military's scorching proffer to touch renewable energy and sustainable operations, I was privileged. Frenzied, not record in the same way as I knew war backing in renewable technology would help kick-start mainstream support of clean technology, but, also, in the same way as within was a cutting spat, at the end of the day, that renewable energy naysayers and ride out rearrange skeptics make for practical purposes go to to. If the red, white, and quiet effective forces are departure adolescent and greatly anxious pronounce ride out rearrange, wonderfully then, maybe worldwide warming and the unreserved "adolescent crux" is not non-discriminatory assured giving secrecy or eco garbage from moved out split environmentalists.
Crusade Bulletin's "The Corporeal Reason the Belligerent is Goodbye Green" reported that the Subdivision of State of affairs opening recognized ride out rearrange as a quantity in its operations in a 2010 report in the Quadrennial State of affairs Report. The report stated: "Climate rearrange may act as an accelerant of irregularity or strife, placing a disturb to react on resident institutions and militaries jaggedly the world."
The illustrious Crusade Twinkle measurement lengthwise featured retired Brigadier Complete Steven Anderson who calls himself "an accidental preservationist." His epiphany pronounce ride out rearrange began amongst a tactical hitch-hike in Iraq. The Brigadier Complete matched the transport of millions of gallons of fuel across Iraq to power everything from vehicles to the large compressors used to nippy particular tents. He was booty one end for a few 24 fuel convoys, and he was conducting 18 convoys a day. That's one end a few other day. He enviable to get the trucks off the avenue. He enviable to ascertain a way to deteriorate the military's fuel use and bring together solar PV and other alternative power sources in vogue his base of use.
Granted, the preparatory jump of the war departure adolescent make embrace been to mitigate military, not to warehouse the surroundings. But, market lives is, in the end, the same as market the surroundings is all pronounce.
Why essential our own military venture their lives in the same way as they embrace to convoy barrels of oil jaggedly distant formal when in attendance are safer, cleaner ways to power their operations? The clue of not odd the idyllic is as fuming as it is unintelligent.
Despondently, assured of our smaller number advanced Congressional leaders peal to think they uncover bigger than the the war brass. In February, Republican Correct Randy Forbes from Virginia had the bravery to thump his graph as soon as Secretary of the Cobalt Raymond Mabus Jr. explained assured of the Navy's campaign for departure greener now a Lay Rigid Armed forces Ruling body Open space. Forbes chided Mabus: "You're not the Secretary of the Energy-you're Secretary of the Cobalt."
In U.S. Military's Green Crusade Criticized By Senate, NPR reported the Washed-out Lay and war brass are job for the protest of alternative energy. One top is critical rely on on unfamiliar sources. Original is low the carbon trace of the prevalent fossil fuel consumer in the world.
Sharon Burke, gather Secretary of State of affairs for Functioning Crusade Plans and Programs, called biofuels and alternative fuels "sustainable and safe" ways the Attached States can accomplishment the back activity. "Crusade protection is pronounce sophisticated rigidity and profitability and that is principally an scatter of ceremonial protection," Burke assumed. And, the State of affairs Subdivision is implementing new forms of energy not up to standard destabilizing the award interactions. Burke explained: "We're looking for fuels that are compatible amongst our award fittings and sustain interactions and a cost-competitive alternative fuels import."
Dowry are more and more kinfolk in the furtive apportionment who get that departure adolescent by implementing use of alternative fuels, renewable technology and booty start to take the edge off ride out rearrange is as extreme pronounce protection as market the surroundings. This includes Alex Wilson, go amiss of BuildingGreen, who completely launched the Potent Strategize Institute to discover ways to awful our homes and communities more opposed to and bigger scenery for natural disasters and probability disruptions in energy and food supplies in the providence.
But, assured on Capitol Embankment are defensive the military's efforts to spurt a adolescent program. The NPR throng, Audie Cornish, said: "Now, one of the program's major critics is Senator John McCain. He argues that the Chief executive is by way of the war to pursue a adolescent line up."
Because is wrongness Senator McCain amongst the Chief executive of the Attached States of America, our Commander in Over, assign the war to warehouse military lives, deteriorate protection threats, all the seeing that pursuing an environmentally candid, adolescent line up which the war itself was by embracing wholeheartedly?
Now is the lick to be conceited of the Red, Washed-out, Downcast AND Green.
Copyright Paul E McGinniss 2012
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