Clinton promises to be the renewable energy president

Clinton was making her comments at Iowa State University in Ames and later in Carroll.

Hillary Clinton laid out ambitious plans Monday to invest in solar and other renewable energy if elected US president, drawing a contrast with her fossil fuel-loving Republican rivals.

“Clinton avoided specifics and refused to take a position on important job-creating energy projects like the Keystone Pipeline, reminding voters why they think she’s untrustworthy.”

Steyer hosted a fundraiser for Clinton in May.

“The reality of climate change is unforgiving-no matter what the deniers say”, Clinton said at a campaign stop at the DART Central Station, a LEED Platinum-certified building, in Des Moines.

Even a largely glowing response from billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer made a point of noting that “in the coming months we look forward to hearing more details about her proposals”. “And I’ve got to tell you, people who argue against this are just not paying attention”.

“We’re expecting a reset” of the former secretary’s platform, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said in an interview, “and a completely different climate and energy policy than the last time she ran for president”.

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Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, also seeking the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, noted Sunday that he unveiled a climate change plan in Iowa that addresses not just consumer energy use, but industrial and transportation, as well.

“Real leadership is about forging public opinion on issues like Keystone – not following it”, Smith said in a statement that touted O’Malley’s goal of 100-percent clean power by 2050. As a presidential candidate in 2007, Clinton called for implementing a market-based system to reduce carbon pollution by capping overall emissions and letting companies trade pollution credits.

If elected president, O’Malley reiterated that he would double America’s energy efficiency within 15 year.

‘We need to have more than half a billion solar panels installed across the country by the end of my first term, ‘ she said.

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

The Clinton campaign said recent scores from the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation “show that it will be possible to offset most of the cost of Hillary Clinton’s clean energy challenge”. Environmentalist Bill McKibben spoke out against Clinton’s indecision.

But she declined to weigh in on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that would send Canadian crude oil to US refineries, a project criticised by environmentalists and many Democratic politicians, that is awaiting a final State Department review.

“No other presidential candidate was secretary of State when this process started”, Clinton said Monday.

According to Mother Jones, the failure of Hillary Clinton to take a hard position on the Keystone pipeline has earned her criticism from both sides of the debate.