Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, released her plans to fight climate change, on Sunday evening.
Clinton says she hopes to have more than a half-billion solar panels installed by the end of her first term and supply clean energy to every home in America within a decade. "We can make a transition over time from a fossil fuel economy, predominantly, to a clean renewable energy economy, predominantly," Clinton said in Iowa on Sunday. She said she would continue President Obama's sweeping plan to limit carbon emissions from power plants, while announcing targets that push beyond current goal's for greenhouse gases, according to Think Progress.
"Those people on the other side, they will answer any question about climate change by saying, 'I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not a scientist either. I'm just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain," she said while releasing her campaign proposal, according to Huffington Post.
While expressing gratitude to men "who mined the coal that created industrial revolution that turned on the lights that fueled the factories, who lost their lives, who were grievously injured, who developed black lung disease," she said, "I will be very clear, I want to do more to help in coal country," reports The New York Times.
Clinton, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state, is expected to discuss more of her plan to increase renewable energy sources and address climate change Monday after a tour at the green-energy certified Des Moines Area Regional Transit (DART) Central Station in Iowa, reports the Washington Times.
Tom Steyer, a billionaire climate activist, had said on Friday, that in order to receive his backing and financial support, a candidate would have to pledge to enact an energy policy that would lead to the generation of half the nation's electricity from renewable or zero-carbon sources by 2030, and 100 percent by 2050. In a statement, Steyer praised Clinton's proposal without offering explicit financial support. "Today, Hillary Clinton emerged as a strong leader in solving the climate crisis and ensuring our country's economic security," he said, according to The New York Times.
