Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is calling for a 50 percent reduction in carbon emissions over the next 10 years to battle climate change.
To achieve that goal, the former New York City mayor and multi-billionaire business and media mogul on Friday unveiled a plan that would shutter all 251 remaining coal plants across the country by 2030 and replace them all with clean energy. He would also phase out gas-fired power plants.
At a speech in Alexandria, Va., Bloomberg warned that “we have to start working as hard as we can building a 100 percent clean energy economy because the alternative is just too bad for all of us.”
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Bloomberg said: “we have to start working as hard as we can building 100% clean energy economy because the alternative is just too bad for all of us” pic.twitter.com/03L8suLqXS
— Kelly Phares (@kellyfphares) December 13, 2019
Standing at a podium with an ‘END COAL 2030’ campaign banner, he highlighted his goals – ensuring 80 percent clean electricity by the end of his second term in the White House, and moving the country toward 100 percent clean energy by 2045 or 2050. – READ MORE