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kennetha

(3,666 posts)
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 04:07 AM Feb 2016

More Events like Flint

That's what Hillary should do. She needs to go to places where she can bring the attention of the press and of the nation to people who need help. She needs to go and stand in solidarity with people and position herself as effective champion, who can bring real change and get real things done. The Flint thing reminds me a little of Bobby Kennedy's poverty tour of Appalachia back in 1968. Hillary needs to do more of that.

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Live and Learn

(12,769 posts)
1. Yeah, and maybe she can talk about how fracking will lead to more tragedies like this and
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 04:10 AM
Feb 2016

admit that she made another 'little mistake' by supporting it.

TheBlackAdder

(28,205 posts)
2. Ohio is screwed with the lead in their water and their fracking waste injection wells.
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 04:21 AM
Feb 2016

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But, I guess the watersheds are better damaged than having the toxic radioactive waste dumped into streams.





She helped export fracking worldwide, including England and Scotland. Thanks!


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Perhaps the inbred relationship with her campaign chair (Koch/BP Oil) and her donations have something to do with it?



Check out the link...

Fracking, KXL, If election, would she do a Chris Christie and let ExxonMobile out of a Climate Change/Pollution settlement?



Hillary Clinton rakes in money from fossil fuel interests


Here’s just a partial list of the fossil fuel–friendly bundlers who raised money for Clinton from April through June:


http://grist.org/climate-energy/hillary-clinton-rakes-in-money-from-fossil-fuel-interests/


Heather Podesta and Tony Podesta have raised $31,150 and $74,575, respectively. The power ex-couple are big-shot Democratic lobbyists. Tony’s brother John is Clinton’s campaign chair and former White House chief of staff to Bill Clinton. Even though John Podesta is considered a climate hawk, Tony and his ex-wife Heather represent fossil fuel companies. Heather’s recent past clients include Marathon Oil and Bill Koch’s Oxbow Carbon, a coal giant, and from 2004 to 2006 she lobbied for Koch Industries. Tony lobbied for BP in the wake of its disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, and through last year he represented Golden Pass, a company co-owned by ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum that wants to export liquefied natural gas. To be fair, they also work on behalf of renewable fuel companies — Tony represents SolarReserve, a solar power company, and Heather lobbies for the ethanol industry. You might call the Podestas the very embodiment of the Obama/Clinton “all of the above” energy policy.



But the contrast between her and her opponents is clear, and it’s indicative of real policy differences. O’Malley has laid out a set of strong, detailed proposals to combat climate change. These include not just measures Obama has begun taking, like regulating carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act, but ones he hasn’t, like adopting zero-tolerance regulation for methane leaks from oil and gas wells and denying new offshore oil leasing permits. Clinton has not endorsed any stances beyond Obama’s except for charging more for coal leases.



“Hillary Clinton’s position is stuck in the past,” says Jamie Henn, a spokesperson for 350 Action. “We have the tools to transition away from fossil fuels. What about all the jobs lost because of climate impacts? We need a president who is willing to make tough decisions about how to transition our economy in the face of climate risk.”



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