Issue Position: Climate Change and the Green Energy Economy

Issue Position

I believe in science. I listen to the scientists and read the research that makes it clear Indiana needs policies that address changes in our climate right now. Indiana's environmental rankings have been consistently low. Climate modeling by the Purdue Climate Change Research Center shows our state becoming warmer and wetter with the pace of these changes picking up speed as heat-trapping gases, produced by humans burning fossil fuels, continue accumulating in the atmosphere. We must retire our aging coal plants, retrain the miners, and encourage the production of sustainable energy. By investing in clean, renewable energy, we will protect Hoosiers from the harmful effects of burning fossil fuels, while providing good-paying jobs and strengthening our economy. Renewable energy is a rapidly growing field, yet the General Assembly with its Republican supermajority just passed a bill that bails out the coal industry and slows down our transition to renewables while a Climate Change resolution languished in committee. I want Indiana to look forward, not backwards.

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