If we act together, the renewable energy transformation can be the peace project of the 21st century.
Every country, city and citizen, every financial institution, company and civil society organization has a role to play.
The only sustainable future is a renewable one.
Late Friday night, as the rest of the world shifted to long-weekend mode, @FERC released a decision that advocates worry will make it harder to get large scale clean energy online in the next few years. https://t.co/PIpiXfCckR
In California, the state Senate last week passed a measure that would prohibit the state's public pension funds from investing in the largest oil, gas and coal companies within a decade.
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It isn't as if they didn't know way back about coal...but the likes of EXXON, BP, Chevron, Shell...they knew about oil and gas and should be held liable and required to provide reparations as they shut down fossil fuels.
This is why I introduced the Environmental Justice Air Quality Monitoring Act, which would authorize funding for the EPA to conduct hyperlocal air quality monitoring projects in environmental justice communities.
Communities of color breathe dirtier air, with pollutants varying up to 800% from one end of a city block to the next. Only by assessing air quality block-by-block can we ensure all Americans have clean and safe air, regardless of their race, ZIP code, or income.
The transition to all-electric homes “is going to happen. It’s going to occur... Our forests are burning, the days are hotter, our floods are more extreme… Do you want to fight the inevitable, or co-author the necessary?”
Thank you @MayorOfLA!
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