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Sierra Club @sierraclubSierra Club has endorsed @HillaryClinton for president! Read our statement: http://sc.org/1td0LbL
Nations Largest and Most Influential Grassroots Environmental Organization Cites Clintons Detailed Plans and Ability to Build on Obamas Legacy
Thursday, June 9, 2016
San Francisco, CA -- Today, the Sierra Club endorsed Secretary Hillary Clinton for President.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:
We firmly believe Secretary Clinton will be the strong environmental champion that we need to lead our country, which is why the Sierra Club is proud to endorse her and her vision for America.
Over the last eight years, our country has made enormous advancements in cutting carbon pollution, transitioning away from dirty fuels, and increasing clean energy deployment. Secretary Clinton has a long record on the environment and is the leader we need to build on this progress made by President Obama and the climate movement. She has listened to the grassroots and crafted detailed plans to safeguard our climate, air, water, and public lands, to protect the most vulnerable from environmental injustice, and to continue the rapid expansion of our clean energy economy.
Senator Bernie Sanders and his millions of supporters ran a hard-fought campaign and helped elevate climate change and protecting our environment while reducing inequality as key issues in the Democratic Primary. Senator Sanders and his supporters brought the passionate, principled advocacy that we need, and we are eager to work together to raise these issues in every campaign--not just the presidential race.
Together, Senator Sanders and Secretary Clinton made this an election about the issues and finding real solutions. Solutions like protecting our oceans and public lands from fossil fuel development; rejecting dangerous trade deals such as the Trans Pacific Partnership; and transitioning onto 100% clean, renewable energy.
Contrasted with that, we have a reckless and misinformed candidate in Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, a con job, and a concept created by the Chinese. Trumps record setting contradictory statements includes his energy plan. Trump claims hell protect clean air and water but has pledged to dismantle the EPA. He offers vague promises to create jobs but would stifle growth in wind and solar, which are among the fastest growing sectors of the U.S. economy. And when he gets to specifics, Trump makes rash promises, like ripping up the Paris Climate Agreement, a landmark agreement that brought 196 countries together for the first time in history. The gap on environmental and climate issues between Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump is the largest in U.S. political history.
The Sierra Club, like so many Americans, not only wants to protect President Obamas legacy--we want to expand it. That is something we can accomplish with a Clinton White House, and its why the Sierra Clubs members and supporters will work tirelessly to make sure shes elected this November. We have an historic opportunity to build a clean energy economy that puts millions of people to work, and theres no turning back.
read: http://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2016/06/sierra-club-endorses-hillary-clinton-president
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Algae creates oxygen. Radioactive fracking waste in rivers/lakes creates large extremophile algae.
TheBlackAdder
Jun 2016
#47
Thats a moot point. People should be more concerned with sierra endorsing someone recieving
DemMomma4Sanders
Jun 2016
#22
Well, they did and I don't see where Clinton has done anything for fossil fuel but take
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#26
So you're saying that it isn't true that Hillary was promoting fracking in France, The UK,
DemMomma4Sanders
Jun 2016
#34
Maybe the Sierra club members can persuade Clinton to stop supporting fracking and ban it.
bjobotts
Jun 2016
#60
The Sierra Club went over to the Corporate side years ago. They accept "donations" from
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#5
"executive director, Michael Brune, admitted in Time magazine that the Sierra Club had, between 2007
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#13
Good advice. They are already setting up their excuses for losing to Trump like they did
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#17
LOL. Side with the Big Money and then think you can gloat. We are determine to fight for
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#39
I find that those that side with the corporations like to dismiss issues with comments like
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#53
Laugh and gloat as you will. You sided with the Big Money because youwanted to be on the
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#40
I'm sure we'll be treated to at least one comment about how the Sierra Club *waited* (gasp!) until …
NurseJackie
Jun 2016
#7
Excellent and meaningful. When Sierra Club endorsed our local candidate for the House...
Hekate
Jun 2016
#19
Yes, the woman who's pushed hard for fracking just about everywhere except on the moon gets the
Gene Debs
Jun 2016
#45
I'm sure the frackers'll come up with just the right chemical cocktail to appease Hillary...
raindaddy
Jun 2016
#58