Presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton has just released an aggressive and comprehensive plan to fight climate change and significantly curb the US addiction to foreignย oil.
The plan called โPowering America’s Future: Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Address the Energy and Climate Crisisโ proposesย to:
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% from 1990 levels by 2050 โ the level necessary to avoid the worst impacts of globalย warming.
- Cut foreign oil imports by two-thirds from projected levels byย 2030.
- Transform our carbon-based economy into an efficient green economy, creating at least 5 million jobs from clean energy over the nextย decade.
Grist lays out the entire planย here.
Other key aspects are a new cap-and-trade program that auctions 100% of permits alongside investments to move us on the path towards energy independence and $50 billion Strategic Energy Fund, paid for in part by oil companies, to fund investments in alternativeย energy.
About time we’ve seen a presidential candidate take the climate crisisย serious.
