Issue Position: Reversing Climate Change and Promoting Renewable Energy

Issue Position

"Climate change isn't just an issue," Jamie said at his kickoff announcement. "It is the entire context in which we have to make all our public policy decisions. If you get your science from scientists instead of Fox News, you know this is an emergency and not a myth." In the State Senate, Jamie worked hard to pass tough legislation to increase the clean energy standards in our state energy portfolio; to pass the Green Maryland Act, which requires state agencies and departments to use recycling and composting plans and green purchasing and acquisition rules; and to create a state Climate Change Commission to take action to deal with the looming perils and profound damage already caused by climate change.

In Congress, Jamie will work to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to slow, halt, and reverse climate change while investing in alternative clean energy technologies like solar and wind power that will permit us to break our dangerous carbon addiction. Jamie is calling for what he describes as a "Green Deal"--"what we need," he says, "is massive infrastructural investment that is done in an environmentally positive way."

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