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2014 Election Results
It was blood on the tracks when the election results came in last night, but few real surprises considering the lopsided number of number of red states with open congressional seats. Make no mistake, the election results were not a national referendum against environmental protection or climate change deniers ruling the day – the 2012 presidential election set the course on energy and the environment – a course that the worked to detail.
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The 2014 election was fossil fuel dependent states voting for more fossil fuel at the expense of the nation and the planet. It also comes as no surprise that media purchases of dark money front groups funded by the Koch brothers, API members and others out spent Steyer and environmental groups 3 to 1 –the same money interests that continue to promote a 20th century energy policy that trumps science, environmental regulation, and the consequences of burning fossil fuels.
The victors of yesterday’s election have their heads struck in the tar sand, ignoring the high risk and widespread harm now occurring from fossil fuel emissions: rising global temperatures, floods, drought, super storms, the extinction of species, ocean acidification, and global impacts to agriculture.
With Big Coal soon to be in charge of the Senate, the GOP led House of Representatives already agents for gas and oil interests, don’t be surprised to see renewable energy and other energy reform measures now underway stall or being rolled back. Addressing global warming and transforming America to a sustainable energy economy will be put on shelf at this critical juncture in time.
On the bright side, we are only two years out from 2016 and the Republicans and Tea Party radicals have repeatedly demonstrated they can’t govern – in or out of power...
Climate Change Summit 2014
Five years have passed since many of us met in Copenhagen. And since then, our understanding of climate change has advanced -- both in the deepening science that says this once-distant threat has moved “firmly into the present,” and into the sting of more frequent extreme weather events that show us exactly what these changes may mean for future generations. No nation is immune...
Globetrans PUC Submission, re: HECO Energy Plan
HECO’s Power Supply Improvement Plan (PSIP) currently before the PUC is designed to maximize the utility's current position as a fossil-fuel power producer, extend the life of costly dirty power generation options (including LNG), and all at the expense of solar and other non-polluting power options for the state.
It's a plan that will create additional economic barriers of entry in the adoption of solar by the general public, while rewarding those utility customers who do not adopt solar - a plan that defeats the very goals of clean energy adoption in Hawaii.
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