Clinton Tut-Tuts Deniers, But Offers Few Specifics, Nothing On Keystone At Vegas Shindig
Hillary Clinton called out climate change “deniers” at a clean energy conference in Las Vegas Thursday evening, but revealed little new about what her own energy policy platform might look like if she decides to run for president. Clinton began her remarks at the National Clean Energy Summit by laying out the problems climate change is already causing today, including extreme weather and droughts. “[These are] the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face,” she said. “No matter what deniers say.”
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“Aside from the deniers and the special interests and all the other folks who want to pretend we don’t have a crisis is the fact that we are leaving money and jobs behind,” she said. “For those on the other side, they have to answer to the reality they are denying peoples’ jobs and middle class incomes and upward mobility by their refusal to look to the future.”
Clinton has several hard choices to make on what her energy policy will look like if she decides to run for president, but — not surprisingly — she left those decisions up in the air on Thursday. With regards to natural gas, which has boomed in recent years, the former secretary of state said new fracking technologies can be part of the solution, even though they present their own problems. “We have to face head-on the legitimate, pressing environmental concerns,” she said.
Whoever runs for the Democratic nomination can expect to face pressure from environmentalists to crack down on fracking. But Clinton simply repeated almost verbatim the position she lays out in her book, “Hard Choices,” calling for “smart regulations” which may include “deciding not to drill when the risks are too high.” Also, as expected, she did not mention the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
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