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More Than 300 Local Officials From 40 States Call For Green New Deal, End Of Fossil Fuels
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Workers install solar panels. Associated Press
The open letter includes a signature from a former high-level Mobil Oil executive.
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huffingtonpost.com - by Alexander C. Kaufman - December 14, 2018
In a little over a month, the so-called Green New Deal has won endorsements from more than three dozen sitting or incoming federal lawmakers as Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) makes a high-profile bid to shift debate over climate change toward policy on the scale of the crisis.
On Friday, the effort got a boost from 311 state and local officials.
Forty-four mayors, 63 county and state legislators and 116 city council members were among the officials from 40 states ― including some top oil and gas producers ― who signed an open letter issuing a sweeping, full-throated call for the phaseout of fossil fuels and adoption of Green New Deal-style climate policies.
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The Green New Deal’s first test: what counts as clean energy?
Here’s one fight the Green New Deal should avoid for now
The smart political move is leaving the question of what counts as clean energy as open as possible.
vox.com - by David Roberts - January 17, 2019
The Green New Deal has captured the public imagination, emerging from obscurity to become the talk of the town in a matter of weeks. Lots of people on the left want to draft on that grassroots energy, claiming some of it for themselves. Thus, the jockeying has begun to define the GND, to nail down exactly what it means and who is allowed to claim the banner.
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