The State of the Union: Clean Energy or Bust 01/26/2010
Here's a summary of a recent post from the "Dernogalizer", a blog which Campaign Director Matt Dernoga maintains: There’s a lot of chatter about what President Obama is going to say in his State of the Union address this Wednesday. There’s no doubt that President Obama’a agenda, along with that of the Democrats has taken a serious blow of recent with the loss in Massachusetts. Obama has had a much more fiery, populist tone to his speeches and remarks in the last week, and the two buzzwords I read him focusing on in his State of the Union speech is jobs creation, and policies for the middle class. While I’m sure there will be a nice paragraph or two dedicated to clean energy and green jobs, I think President Obama should make clean energy the centerpiece of his address. For the entire post: http://madrad2002.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/the-state-of-the-union-clean-energy-or-bust/ |  AuthorUMD for Clean Energy is a student activist group at the University of Maryland. In the past, they have successfully petitioned the university and University System of Maryland Board of Regents to commit to carbon neutrality by 2050. This past spring, they were successful in collaborating with statewide environmental groups to pass the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act, which sets the strongest short-term emissions reduction target in the nation – 25 percent reductions from 2006 levels by 2020. The group has also recently engaged at the federal level, lobbying for climate legislation which passed the House of Representatives this past June and will be considered by the Senate in the fall. ArchivesMarch 2010 Categories |
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