{"id":1867,"date":"2010-04-23T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2026-03-14T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:43:09","slug":"yesterdays-blog-highlights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2010\/04\/23\/yesterdays-blog-highlights-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday&#8217;s blog highlights \u2013\u00a0April 23, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <em>Climate Progress<\/em>, CAP Senior Fellow Van Jones explains that \u201cthe next 40 years of environmental policy will be primarily economic policy as we begin to <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/04\/22\/the-new-environmentalists-wear-hard-hats\">repower America with cleaner energy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On <em>E2 Wire<\/em>, Senator Kerry asserts that now is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/93789-kerry-2010-is-last-best-shot-at-climate-bill\">the time to pass a climate bill<\/a>. &#8220;We can\u2019t afford to wait and we\u2019ll never have as clear a shot to reach this goal we first set out twenty years ago,&#8221; Kerry (D-Mass.) said.<\/p>\n<p>On<em> Grist, <\/em>Dan Lashof highlights the importance of Earth Day and asserts that we need &#8220;more than a celebration. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/we-need-a-clean-energy-revolution\/\">We need a clean energy revolution<\/a> that creates 2 million jobs, cuts 2 billion tons, and saves 2 trillion dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/consequence09.org\/\">Clean Energy Revolution video<\/a> that nicely sums up our current situation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e6yuRZai__k&amp;feature=player_embedded\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e6yuRZai__k&amp;feature=player_embedded<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Climate Progress, CAP Senior Fellow Van Jones explains that \u201cthe next 40 years of environmental policy will be primarily economic policy as we begin to repower America with cleaner energy.\u201d On E2 Wire, Senator Kerry asserts that now is the time to pass a climate bill. &#8220;We can\u2019t afford to wait and we\u2019ll never &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"coauthors":[108135],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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