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It looks like tree-hugging liberals will get their dream presidential candidate after all.
Bernie Sanders to Run for President as a Democrat
Anastasia Pantsios | April 29, 2015 8:56 am
http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/29/bernie-sanders-run-president-democrat/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=d0271ce0a1-Top_News_4_29_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-d0271ce0a1-85984577
Calling climate change “the greatest environmental threat facing the planet,” Sanders was a co-sponsor of the Climate Protection Act of 2013 which would tax carbon and methane emissions from coal, oil and natural gas production and use the revenue to invest in energy efficiency and sustainable energy, including investments in wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and plug-in vehicles. Sanders also introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act to end subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuel companies. He’s an opponent of subsidies and tax breaks for the nuclear power industry as well.
Fracking? He’s unequivocally against it. “I’m very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking,” he said last year. “I hope communities all over America do the same.”
And unlike Clinton, whom he worked with when she was in the Senate to pass the Green Jobs Act, which created a green jobs workforce training program, he hasn’t been coy about where he stands on the Keystone XL pipeline.
In an interview with CNN in January, when the pipeline was under consideration in the Senate, he said, “The scientific community tells us, virtually unanimous accounts, that climate change is real. It’s already causing devastating problems and if we do not transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, this planet is gonna face some serious problems. The idea that we would give a green light for the transportation of 800,000 barrels of some of the dirtiest oils all over the world makes no sense to me.”
Sanders was also responsible for introducing an amendment to the Keystone Pipeline approval bill to put the Senate on record that climate change is real and human-caused.
Fracking? He’s unequivocally against it. “I’m very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking,” he said last year. “I hope communities all over America do the same.”
And unlike Clinton, whom he worked with when she was in the Senate to pass the Green Jobs Act, which created a green jobs workforce training program, he hasn’t been coy about where he stands on the Keystone XL pipeline.
In an interview with CNN in January, when the pipeline was under consideration in the Senate, he said, “The scientific community tells us, virtually unanimous accounts, that climate change is real. It’s already causing devastating problems and if we do not transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, this planet is gonna face some serious problems. The idea that we would give a green light for the transportation of 800,000 barrels of some of the dirtiest oils all over the world makes no sense to me.”
Sanders was also responsible for introducing an amendment to the Keystone Pipeline approval bill to put the Senate on record that climate change is real and human-caused.
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Response to tencats (Original post)
Good one.
Stained my locally sourced, hand-made, unbleached wool sweater. *sigh* 
BERNIE!!! 