Janice Hahn on Energy & Oil

Create 25,000 green jobs via clean energy market

The following six proposals offer an outline of Hahn's "Plan to Reinvest at Home Instead of Spending on Wars Abroad."
1. Improve Federal Funding and Regulatory Policy for Green Energy
2. Promote "Local Energy"
3. Create a Stable Clean Energy Market
4. Invest in American Innovation
5. Build the Green Infrastructure of Tomorrow
6. Level the Playing Field with Big Oil.

Take responsibility for climate change

Thankfully, Los Angeles' utility will be off coal by 2020. Janice has pledged to work to achieve an aggressive national Renewable Portfolio Standard.

50% clean and carbon free electricity by 2030.

Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should establish a national goal of more than 50 percent clean and carbon free electricity by 2030 for the purposes of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, growing our economy, increasing our shared prosperity, improving public health, and preserving our national security.

• Whereas failing to act on climate change will have a devastating impact on our Nation's economy, costing us billions of dollars in lost GDP;
• Whereas extreme weather, intensified by climate change, has already cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year in recovery efforts, and this will only continue if climate change is left unaddressed;
• Whereas climate change will have devastating public health implications, including increased asthma attacks and exacerbation of other respiratory diseases, especially in vulnerable populations;
• Whereas inaction on climate change will disproportionately impact communities of color and exacerbate existing economic inequalities;
• Whereas the transition to a clean energy economy is feasible with existing technology;
• Whereas the transition to clean energy will create millions of jobs and will increase our country's GDP and increase disposable household income;

1. Establish a national goal of more than 50 percent clean and carbon free electricity by 2030; and
2. Enact legislation to accelerate the transition to clean energy to meet this goal.