Issue Position: The Environment

Issue Position

We will work to…

Provide research and development credits to explore newer technologies that can further lower greenhouse gas emissions and also re-capture emissions.

Extend and expand the 45Q tax credit for businesses that capture carbon during production.

Instruct the Department of Energy's national labs to research better and cheaper recycling technologies.

Oppose nationalizing the energy sector and efforts to destroy our newly achieved energy independence.

Support tax and investment incentives designed to dramatically increase renewable energy.

Resist efforts to push punishing mandates on lower income families, for whom energy is typically their second highest non discretionary expense.

Oppose efforts to ask the United States--already on our way to being the lowest polluter per capita on the planet--to take drastic measures that will bankrupt employers and families, in the name of new deals and phony treaties and accords.

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