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7 Reasons to Support Comprehensive Clean-Energy Legislation

7 Reasons to Support Comprehensive Clean-Energy Legislation

1. Clean-energy legislation will create jobs by spurring investment in renewables and efficiency.

The legislation would place a cap on global warming pollution that would give companies and utilities an incentive to invest in low-carbon and energy-efficient technologies in order to minimize their emissions. These kinds of investments increase demand for renewable electricity and fuels, helping grow entire new businesses, and create jobs in struggling sectors of the economy such as manufacturing and construction.

Clean-energy investments also create more jobs than investments in traditional energy sources.

2. Boosting investments in low-carbon energy will help the United States regain the lead in the manufacture and sale of clean-energy technologies.

3. Action on clean-energy legislation has critical industry support.

4. Global warming is harming our health and the physical environment.

5. Comprehensive clean-energy legislation can provide a host of economic benefits.

6. Clean-energy legislation requires that polluters pay.

7. Opponents of action would continue the status quo of doing nothing, which cost the average family a $1,000 increase in energy bills over past eight years.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/05/clean_energy_reasons.html

May 21, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | ENERGY, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, renewables