We are working to clean up Washington, D.C.’s renewable energy standard so that it promotes the cleanest sources of energy -- wind and solar power. While other Mid-Atlantic states like Delaware and New Jersey already get 70 percent of their renewable energy from the wind and the sun, only 4 percent of D.C.’s renewable energy mix comes from these resources.
The Canadian oil and gas company TransCanada wants to build a pipeline to carry the world's dirtiest oil -- tar sands oil -- from Alberta, Canada across America's heartland to the Gulf Coast for export. If President Obama is serious about fighting climate change, he must reject this pipeline.
“Cap and dividend” is a simple, fair policy solution to reduce CO2 emissions without reducing household incomes. It caps fossil fuels, makes polluters pay, and returns the revenue to everyone equally. Those who care about halting climate change agree that the amount of carbon allowed into our atmosphere should be limited and that the cost of carbon pollution should be paid by the industries that do the polluting.
CCAN is part of a national coalition of more than 300 environmental and public health groups working together to combat the fossil fuel lobby's efforts to minimize federal oversight of coal ash dumps.