Evergreen Action lays out climate road map for Harris

By Adam Aton | 08/02/2024 06:36 AM EDT

The group, which laid the groundwork for President Joe Biden’s energy agenda, imagines union labor building out a clean energy grid.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the COP28 climate summit on Dec. 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Evergreen Action released a climate blueprint this week for the Democratic presidential candidate. Kamran Jeebreili/AP

Climate hawks just got their own Project 2025.

Evergreen Action, the climate advocates who laid the groundwork for President Joe Biden’s energy agenda, released a plan this week outlining how Vice President Kamala Harris could build on the current administration’s policies if she wins the White House in November.

Dubbed the Evergreen Action Plan 2.0, the strategy proposes ideas for sector-specific decarbonization policies — including emerging opportunities unlocked by technological advances and the Inflation Reduction Act’s historic climate spending. It also includes a new focus on beefing up democratic institutions and reforming the Supreme Court.

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“The core of this plan is using high-quality union labor to build out a national power grid underwritten by a national 100 percent clean electricity standard,” said Craig Segall, Evergreen’s vice president. Cheap, renewable power could give the U.S. industry a competitive edge, he added.

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