• Politics

The Latest Climate Plan: House Dems Unveil an Outline of CLEAN Future Legislation

• #GreenNewDeal
• clean energy
• climate change
• Sunrise Movement

On Wednesday, the House Democratic leadership rolled out their answer to the Green New Deal — an outline of a proposal they call “The Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act,” which adopts the science-based goal of transitioning the United States to a 100 percent clean economy – defined as producing net-zero emissions – by 2050.

Why This Matters:  The bill is being released now to lay the groundwork in the event that Dems win the White House in 2020.

• Politics

Democratic Debate Tonight: What Might CNN Ask?

• climate change
• CNN
• Democratic Debate
• Detroit
• frontline communities
• Sunrise Movement

The second Democratic debate tonight and tomorrow night, which is being held in Detroit, offers CNN an opportunity to ask some environment/climate questions that are particularly of interest due to the local audience who are drawn from a “frontline community” as conceived of in the Green New Deal that has been endorsed by several candidates. 

• People

Environmental Justice Is Essential to Climate Justice, and Now it Has A Caucus

• #ActOnClimate
• climate justice
• communities of color
• Environmental Justice
• low income
• pollution
• Sunrise Movement

Earlier this week, I (Monica) attended the Sunrise Movement rally in DC, which most people think of as a movement of young people demanding immediate and drastic action on climate change.  But listening to the leaders of the movement, who are much more diverse than the traditional “green” groups, one thing was abundantly clear — […]

• Green New Deal

AOC Headlines Sold Out Sunrise Movement GND Rally In DC

• #ChangetheDebate
• Bill Nye
• climate change
• Green New Deal
• Last Week Tonight
• Sunrise Movement

The Sunrise Movement held its biggest and highest profile event yet on its Green New Deal (GND) tour, packing the house at Howard University in Washington, with appearances by its high profile backers Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Ed Markey, the original cosponsors of the GND, and Senator Bernie Sanders.  Fossil fuel companies and “conservatives in both parties who favor a middle ground” were proclaimed the enemies of the movement by speaker after speaker.

• Politics

The Green New Deal Remains In the News

• climate change
• Green New Deal
• Meet The Press
• radical
• Senate
• Sunrise Movement

We worried that the Green New Deal might be like other environmental proposals — they make the news once or twice and then vanish.  But the Green New Deal (GND) remains on the front pages and a topic of conversation that is getting attention widely and beyond the liberal elites.