NextGen is an organization that advocates on behalf of climate action. The Clean Power Plan is now law in the US, but we will need strong leadership going forward to protect it and do more to combat climate change in America. The transition to a clean energy economy is already underway and to keep driving it forward NextGen is calling on the presidential candidates to develop a clean enery plan. The specific targets put forward by NextGen call for half of the nation’s power being supplied by clean energy by 2030.
To see which of the candidates lives up to the NextGen challenge click here. For a concise up to date review of the climate
positions of the Democratic presidential candidates click on the
following links:
Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Lincoln Chaffee, Larry Lessig and Jim Webb.
Click here to go to the NextGen webite.
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