I already knew that Barack Obama has a solid environmental record.
Looks like Tom Vilsack also is a good presidential choice,
environmentally speaking:
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It Takes a Vilsack to Raise Our Hopes
Presidential candidate Tom Vilsack outlines bold energy and climate plan
If Democratic presidential long-shot Tom Vilsack had his way, the U.S.
would embrace a mandatory cap-and-trade system to slash greenhouse-gas
emissions 75 percent by 2050, break its oil addiction, and create
hundreds of thousands of clean-energy jobs. This week, the former Iowa
governor became the first presidential hopeful to outline a detailed
energy policy. Just picture it: new power plants carbon-free by 2020;
fuel providers reducing carbon emissions 1 percent a year for a decade;
a 25-cent-per-gallon federal tax credit for cellulosic ethanol
production; a nigh-unto-petroleum-free transportation system by 2040;
and the Energy Department -- now "an advocate for fossil-based fuel
providers" -- renamed the Department of Energy Security. Ballsy! Vilsack
even pledged to green his stumping by offsetting his travel and office
electricity use. "[O]ur nation's destiny truly hangs in the balance," he
said. While he checks "become proficient in hyperbole" off his to-do
list, feel free to salivate.
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---'Becca