Issue Position: Climate Change & Renewable Energy

Issue Position

My Commitment:

Not to just talk about climate change, but make fighting it a top priority.

Extend and expand programs like the ones I used as a city councilor to help cities lead the way on our climate fight.

Reinvest in clean energy job credits to help students access trade jobs in clean energy (electricians, installers, machinists, engineers)

Fight to restore vehicle emissions standards Trump targeted for repeal

Partner with state legislators to update our PACE laws so homeowners can include the cost of solar in their annual home mortgage payments and transfer them to a new owner without losing out.

Climate change is the biggest challenge my generation inherited and it will be up to up to stop it. Nearly every scientist agrees (except the ones paid by the fossil fuel industry) that human activity is accelerating climate change at an almost unstoppable rate.

President Trump ceded American leadership when he announced a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords. But we don't have to follow that path.

In 2016, I led a team putting $51 million of solar on city buildings. That put local solar companies and local families to work making Albuquerque a solar city -- instead of leaving to find clean energy jobs in other states.

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