Liberal Billionaire Promises Cash, Hillary Comes Out for Green Energy

The statements hold significance in the run up to the global climate change conference to be held in Paris in December.

Voters in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia think Hillary Clinton is not honest or trustworthy.

During her campaign in Iowa, the former first lady praised that state’s efforts of promoting the use of renewable energy noting that Iowa sources 30 percent of its energy from wind.

At a few point, she wiped clean the email server kept in her home in Chappaqua, New York, preventing any of the messages from being recovered.

Her husband Bill Clinton served as US President between 1993 and 2001 and was also successful in highlighting environmental issues, campaigning to reduce carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions while also promising to increase air quality. Former Gov. Jeb Bush said last week in New Hampshire that federal subsidies for fossil fuels and renewable energy should eventually be phased out, but offered no more specifics when pressed by a questioner.

This story has been corrected to reflect that $60 billion is the estimated cost of proposed grants, not Clinton’s overall energy plan.

Chart from the Hillary Clinton campaign showing her plan for growing the use of solar energy in the U.S.

Hillary Clinton has announced plans to deliver enough renewable power for every US home by 2027, as part of a highly ambitious climate change strategy unveiled yesterday by the Presidential hopeful.

Other candidates running for the Democratic nomination have seized on Clinton’s caution and attacked her for refusing to take a definitive stance. She said she would “guarantee that coal miners and their families get the benefits they’ve earned”, but didn’t elaborate on what she meant or how specifically she would achieve that.

“America needs to lead this fight, not go MIA”. “Now, we need Clinton to show she understands the other half of the climate change equation – and prove she has the courage to stand up against fossil fuel projects like offshore and Arctic drilling, coal leasing in the Powder River basin, and the Keystone XL pipeline”. On Friday, the green donor set his first expectation for candidates wanting his support in the 2016 election, requiring that they first lay out a plan to reach at least 50 percent renewables in the electricity sector by 2030. And she said that she would continue Obama’s practice of pursuing aggressive climate policies from within the White House, saying that “we still have a lot we can do” without waiting for a recalcitrant Congress to act.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who has gained a few early traction in the Democratic primaries, has been outspoken in his opposition to the pipeline, which if completed would ship Canadian tar sands crude into the U.S.

“The current definition of a long-term holding period – just one year – is woefully inadequate”, Clinton said.