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The United States needs to build a new economic engine by building the clean energy and "green" economy that goes with it. This is the foundation of a 21st Century economy. The federal government should set clear goals to create a carbon-free/nuclear free energy economy by 2030. The collective resources of the United States should be used to achieve this goal, e.g. provide tax credits and other support for "green" projects that can be done quickly, such as retrofitting homes and businesses for increased energy efficiency. These investments will create millions of green jobs and businesses especially in long-neglected urban areas. The United States needs to stop corporate welfare to fossil fuel (oil, coal and gas), corn-based fuel, and nuclear energy as these are counterproductive to transforming the nation to a sustainable energy economy. These tens of billions in revenue should be redirected to spurring the clean energy economy and at the same time leveling the playing field between old energy sources and new. The U.S. should put forward long-term plans to invest in the creation of the new energy economy. This will add momentum to the already rapidly expanding investment in new energy products.

Tax carbon emissions at the source as they enter the economy, i.e. tax coal, oil and gas for their emissions. A carbon tax would be the least expensive to administer but whether a carbon tax or cap and trade, such a program will control carbon emissions and spur research and investment to reduce the release of carbon. If it is a cap and trade system these carbon caps should be sold to the industries that put carbon into the system. The funds from these sales or taxes, which will be trillions of dollars annually, should be shared among the American people in a monthly dividend check. This will help consumers pay for increased cost of fuel and will reward Americans who reduce their carbon footprint.

Prosperity for all!
Feb 27, 2010 — admin

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"Citizens United" Disaster Spreads, Resistance Builds
Mar 9, 2010 — KZeese

By David Swanson
Free Speech for People

The damage from the Supreme Court's decision in "Citizens United v. FEC" continues to spread as feared. Newly emboldened corporations are suing to overturn state laws that restrict corporate spending on politics:

"A pro-natural resource development group [how's that for spin?] and a Bozeman painting company asked a Helena District Court on Monday to strike down Montana’s 1912 ban on corporate donations and expenditures to political campaigns to comply with a January U.S. Supreme Court ruling."



Stimulus money goes overseas
Mar 3, 2010 — KZeese


US to support trade ban on tuna
Mar 3, 2010 — KZeese


Humans Behind Rising Seas, Study Says
Mar 1, 2010 — KZeese


Methane may cause 'runaway' global warming
Feb 23, 2010 — KZeese


Free Speech for People, Not Corporations!
Feb 17, 2010 — KZeese

Marylanders are responding to the shocking new Supreme Court ruling that corporations, for the first time, can spend unlimited funds to influence any local, state or federal political campaign, a ruling the state Senate president called "offensive" and "devastating to democracy."



Series of missteps by climate scientists threatens climate-change agenda
Feb 15, 2010 — KZeese

By Juliet Eilperin and David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post

With its 2007 report declaring that the "warming of the climate system is unequivocal," the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won a Nobel Prize -- and a new degree of public trust in the controversial science of global warming.



Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car
Feb 15, 2010 — KZeese

By TODD WOODY and CLIFFORD KRAUSS
NY Times

SAN FRANCISCO — If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first.

The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations.



Windy Wyoming debates excise tax for wind energy
Feb 15, 2010 — KZeese

By MATT JOYCE
The Associated Press

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A proposal in Wyoming to impose the nation's first state excise tax on wind energy production is generating debate over how the state should handle the arrival of massive wind farms to its wind-swept plains and plateaus.

Gov. Dave Freudenthal made the wind energy tax a centerpiece of his legislative agenda, drawing surprise and alarm from some in the state's fledgling wind industry. The proposal cleared its first hurdle Thursday when the state House voted to introduce the bill.



Washington's snowstorms, brought to you by global warming
Feb 15, 2010 — KZeese

By Bill McKibben
Washington Post

RIPTON, VERMONT -- You want to hear my winter weather story? No, really, I know you do.

The cross-country ski race I've been training for, set for today high in the Green Mountains: cancelled, lack of snow.



Employee Owned, Green Jobs: The Cleveland Model
Feb 12, 2010 — KZeese

By Gar Alperovitz, Ted Howard & Thad Williamson
The Nation



Study boosts notion of offshore wind production
Feb 9, 2010 — KZeese

Abell Foundation says turbine operation could generate jobs, too

The Abell Foundation report envisions three types of turbine: monopile, which rests on a single pile driven into the ocean floor; jacket, which would be built on a broader base; and floating. The turbines would begin outside a visual exclusion zone of 8 nautical miles.

By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun reporter



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