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TO: Reporters Covering McCain/Global Warming
FR: Sierra Club, contact David Willett, National Press Secretary
202-675-6698
RE: Upcoming Global Warming/Energy Policy Speeches
Over the coming days, Senator McCain is expected to unveil his plans for
addressing global warming. While still awaiting details of the plan, the
Sierra Club can offer some specific points on his record on the issue so
far, as well as some red flags that would undermine any strong plan to be
on the lookout for as details emerge.
While Senator McCain deserves credit for his work on early global warming
legislation in the Senate and for bringing attention to the need for urgent
action, his efforts to date have been driven by yesterday's solutions and
they won't solve tomorrow's problems. The science on global warming has
changed dramatically over the last five years and the bill Senator McCain
has previously championed is outdated and fails to provide the big changes
Americans are demanding. Like President Bush, McCain's policies on global
warming offer more of the same, by putting the interests of polluters over
the people and failing to invest in building a clean energy economy that
will create new jobs and opportunities at a time when an economic boost is
sorely needed. Americans want real change--investment in clean,
renewable energy instead of Big Oil, Nuclear power and other polluting
industries. We need more windmills not windfalls.
Any serious attempt to meet the challenge of global warming must include
these basic principles:
First, the targets and timetables must be sufficient to do what the science
demands in both the near and long terms to reduce the negative impacts of
climate change to the maximum extent possible. This will require reductions
in total emissions on the order of 80 percent by 2050 and 20 percent by
2020.
Next, permits to emit carbon must be used for public benefit, not private
windfalls. Pollution allowances are a public trust. All allowances should
be auctioned or otherwise used to benefit the public, not to generate
windfall profits for polluting industries. Free allocations, if any, must
be limited in size and restricted to a short transition period.
Revenue raised by the bill should be used to promote a clean energy future
by investing in the highest-value solutions for emissions reductions first.
These funds should not be used to perpetuate dirty, expensive, outdated
technologies like coal and nuclear energy. Allowances and auction revenues
should be used to accelerate deployment of the clean energy technologies we
have today and to develop the ones we need for tomorrow. Funds should be
invested only in the cleanest, cheapest, safest, and fastest means of
reducing emissions.
Finally, the bill must ensure a just transition for workers, protect
vulnerable groups, and help induce world action. Allowances and auction
revenues should be used to protect low- and moderate-income citizens from
rising energy costs and other negative economic impacts, create new jobs,
ensure fair treatment for affected workers and their communities, and drive
technology transfer to help achieve emissions reductions around the world.
We must also take care of communities that suffer the impacts of global
warming we were too late to avoid.
Numerous studies have shown that we can achieve these goals and meet our
energy needs with the cleanest energy sources and efficiency and without
relying on dirty power. If Senator McCain wants to have a credible and
feasible plan for addressing global warming, he must demonstrate a
commitment to these principles and have a plan that adds up to what science
tells us the world needs. Senator McCain should also join other Senators
to end outrageous subsidies to polluters like Big Oil as they continue to
rake in record profits. Unfortunately, even as Senator McCain urges
America to shower the nuclear energy industry with billions in subsidies,
he has criticized money for biofuels and failed to support incentives for
clean renewable energy like wind and solar power.
Major "red flag" issues to look for in any infeasible global warming plan
* Support for drilling in the Arctic Refuge or lifting the 30-year
moratorium on drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf
* Support for "unconventional fossil fuels"--liquid coal, tar sands, or
oil shale development
* Any expansion of existing subsidies or support for the construction
of new nuclear power plants--including loan guarantees
* Support for the Yucca Mountain facility
* Any attempt to classify coal or nuclear power as "renewable"
* Any global warming plan that gives away allowances to polluters for
free without designated purpose
* Any global warming plan with a so-called "safety-valve" that would
break the carbon cap
* Any global warming plan that bars US action until China, India, and
others act
* Denial of state authority to regulate global warming emissions from
vehicles
* Denial of state authority to regulate global warming pollution
generally
* Refusal to subsidize the development of real clean energy
technologies or the production of clean energy
###
David Willett
National Press Secretary
Sierra Club
(202) 675-6698 (w)
(202) 491-6919 (m)
[email protected]
www.sierraclub.org
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TO: Reporters Covering McCain/Global Warming
FR: Sierra Club, contact David Willett, National Press Secretary
202-675-6698
RE: Upcoming Global Warming/Energy Policy Speeches
Over the coming days, Senator McCain is expected to unveil his plans for
addressing global warming. While still awaiting details of the plan, the
Sierra Club can offer some specific points on his record on the issue so
far, as well as some red flags that would undermine any strong plan to be
on the lookout for as details emerge.
While Senator McCain deserves credit for his work on early global warming
legislation in the Senate and for bringing attention to the need for urgent
action, his efforts to date have been driven by yesterday's solutions and
they won't solve tomorrow's problems. The science on global warming has
changed dramatically over the last five years and the bill Senator McCain
has previously championed is outdated and fails to provide the big changes
Americans are demanding. Like President Bush, McCain's policies on global
warming offer more of the same, by putting the interests of polluters over
the people and failing to invest in building a clean energy economy that
will create new jobs and opportunities at a time when an economic boost is
sorely needed. Americans want real change--investment in clean,
renewable energy instead of Big Oil, Nuclear power and other polluting
industries. We need more windmills not windfalls.
Any serious attempt to meet the challenge of global warming must include
these basic principles:
First, the targets and timetables must be sufficient to do what the science
demands in both the near and long terms to reduce the negative impacts of
climate change to the maximum extent possible. This will require reductions
in total emissions on the order of 80 percent by 2050 and 20 percent by
2020.
Next, permits to emit carbon must be used for public benefit, not private
windfalls. Pollution allowances are a public trust. All allowances should
be auctioned or otherwise used to benefit the public, not to generate
windfall profits for polluting industries. Free allocations, if any, must
be limited in size and restricted to a short transition period.
Revenue raised by the bill should be used to promote a clean energy future
by investing in the highest-value solutions for emissions reductions first.
These funds should not be used to perpetuate dirty, expensive, outdated
technologies like coal and nuclear energy. Allowances and auction revenues
should be used to accelerate deployment of the clean energy technologies we
have today and to develop the ones we need for tomorrow. Funds should be
invested only in the cleanest, cheapest, safest, and fastest means of
reducing emissions.
Finally, the bill must ensure a just transition for workers, protect
vulnerable groups, and help induce world action. Allowances and auction
revenues should be used to protect low- and moderate-income citizens from
rising energy costs and other negative economic impacts, create new jobs,
ensure fair treatment for affected workers and their communities, and drive
technology transfer to help achieve emissions reductions around the world.
We must also take care of communities that suffer the impacts of global
warming we were too late to avoid.
Numerous studies have shown that we can achieve these goals and meet our
energy needs with the cleanest energy sources and efficiency and without
relying on dirty power. If Senator McCain wants to have a credible and
feasible plan for addressing global warming, he must demonstrate a
commitment to these principles and have a plan that adds up to what science
tells us the world needs. Senator McCain should also join other Senators
to end outrageous subsidies to polluters like Big Oil as they continue to
rake in record profits. Unfortunately, even as Senator McCain urges
America to shower the nuclear energy industry with billions in subsidies,
he has criticized money for biofuels and failed to support incentives for
clean renewable energy like wind and solar power.
Major "red flag" issues to look for in any infeasible global warming plan
* Support for drilling in the Arctic Refuge or lifting the 30-year
moratorium on drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf
* Support for "unconventional fossil fuels"--liquid coal, tar sands, or
oil shale development
* Any expansion of existing subsidies or support for the construction
of new nuclear power plants--including loan guarantees
* Support for the Yucca Mountain facility
* Any attempt to classify coal or nuclear power as "renewable"
* Any global warming plan that gives away allowances to polluters for
free without designated purpose
* Any global warming plan with a so-called "safety-valve" that would
break the carbon cap
* Any global warming plan that bars US action until China, India, and
others act
* Denial of state authority to regulate global warming emissions from
vehicles
* Denial of state authority to regulate global warming pollution
generally
* Refusal to subsidize the development of real clean energy
technologies or the production of clean energy
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David Willett
National Press Secretary
Sierra Club
(202) 675-6698 (w)
(202) 491-6919 (m)
[email protected]
www.sierraclub.org
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