To: President Donald Trump
President Obama: Climate Hawk Tom Steyer For Energy Secretary
Forecast the Facts
Please select climate-change hawk and clean-energy entrepreneur Thomas Steyer to succeed Dr. Steven Chu as the U.S. Secretary of Energy.
Why is this important?
The impacts of global warming pollution are accelerating, and Thomas Steyer is the right person to build on Dr. Steven Chu's example of leadership in green energy as the next U.S. Secretary of Energy. "Global warming is not something that you can deal with in between foreign policy and tax rates," Mr. Steyer says. "This is your foreign policy. This is your tax rate."
Tom Steyer, one of the most successful investors in the world, knows how to take on oil companies and right-wing attacks on clean energy, winning the fights to protect California's landmark climate legislation and closing corporate tax loopholes to support green energy investment. He knows that climate change is "the overwhelming issue of our time." He opposes the Keystone XL pipeline and has used his fortune to help build green-energy research centers at Stanford, Yale, and Ohio. “I look at Keystone XL as making a 40-year-investment in producing very dirty fossil fuels," he says. "I think we should be doing something else."
Other candidates for Secretary of Energy, like Dr. Ernest Moniz and Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, are proponents of increasing our dependence on fossil fuels like fracked natural gas and so-called "clean" coal. We need an Energy Secretary who will lead the war on carbon pollution, not help carbon polluters build profits at the expense of our children's future.
Tom Steyer, one of the most successful investors in the world, knows how to take on oil companies and right-wing attacks on clean energy, winning the fights to protect California's landmark climate legislation and closing corporate tax loopholes to support green energy investment. He knows that climate change is "the overwhelming issue of our time." He opposes the Keystone XL pipeline and has used his fortune to help build green-energy research centers at Stanford, Yale, and Ohio. “I look at Keystone XL as making a 40-year-investment in producing very dirty fossil fuels," he says. "I think we should be doing something else."
Other candidates for Secretary of Energy, like Dr. Ernest Moniz and Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, are proponents of increasing our dependence on fossil fuels like fracked natural gas and so-called "clean" coal. We need an Energy Secretary who will lead the war on carbon pollution, not help carbon polluters build profits at the expense of our children's future.