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Heather Cox Richardson, the historian with a sharp eye for current affairs, observes that Harris has her own terms of engagement with the MAGA GOP.
And it's working.
"[MAGA Republicans] seem to be losing the ability to control the public conversation by asserting dominance."
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-30-2024
Similarly for her terms of engagement with the press, and on energy and climate change. She doesn't have time for the BS.
CelloMom On Cars
Big Oil calls on Kamala Harris to come clean on her energy and climate plans
https://www.ft.com/content/d85a2ae2-3693-4132-9a48-8e175997f241
This is a ploy to make her take a stand on a divisive issue, and one that particularly affects a swing state, Pennsylvania.
She has no obligation to respond to the manipulation.
CelloMom On Cars
"Why is Harris largely sidestepping [climate change]?
According to several campaign aides, this ambiguity is not a sign of dismissal or inexperience — it’s a calculated strategy. A recent study on campaign rhetoric, taking foreign policy as its example, suggests candidates turn to ambiguity when campaigning on complex and divisive issues."
CelloMom On Cars
Similarly, Dem Senate candidates don't talk about climate much. Even so,
"All of these Democrats can be counted on to support most or all of a Harris administration’s #climate initiatives, just as the Republicans will reliably oppose them, or support a second Trump administration’s efforts to roll back the measures the Biden administration has undertaken. Which is why so much depends on where the #Senate falls after election day."
CelloMom On Cars
For climate action: don't talk, DO.
"Every activist would like their issue to be at the top of the political agenda, but especially in our current state of polarization, that usually means a big fight, with high stakes and the chance of both victory and defeat. At the moment, abortion is the issue Democrats want to elevate into that kind of fight"
https://heatmap.news/politics/dnc-climate-change
Already, Republicans are begging to keep the IRA even it Trump wins.
CelloMom On Cars
Harris is charting her own course in her campaign. So far she has:
– dealt with the press on her own terms;
– dealt with MAGA on her own terms;
– dealt with both Big Oil and climate groups on her own terms;
– and now also the polls:
“Let’s not pay too much attention to those polls.”
Looks like she knows what's real - the voters - and what's just a distraction.
CelloMom On Cars
Time to talk up the Biden-Harris signature climate law:
Most Americans don't know #WhatBidenDid to fight climate change, and many don't know about the #InflationReductionAct or its success.
"About 4 in 10 registered voters say they’ve heard “nothing at all” about it, according to polling done this spring by Yale University and George Mason University. [But] when people hear about the IRA, they tend to like it."
https://grist.org/politics/inflation-reduction-act-climate-messaging-polling/
CelloMom On Cars
What did #Harris ever do for us?
On climate, Leah Stokes has quite the list. Worth reading, and sharing.
"The more I learned about her background, the more I found a clear pattern: policy ideas that she championed became central to federal legislation. Our nation’s landmark climate law, which is turning two years old this month, has Harris’s signature all over it."
CelloMom On Cars
"More than 3.4 million Americans benefitted from $8.4 billion in clean energy tax credits in 2023."
#WhatBiden did here to cut the cost of living for families is so popular, that
"On Tuesday eighteen House Republicans wrote Speaker Mike Johnson to urge that any GOP efforts to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act should not include repealing the energy tax credits provided by that law."
lmao
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/08/07/2023-energy-tax-credits-IRA/8251723038906/
CelloMom On Cars
U.S. households claimed $8.4 billion in #InflationReductionAct credits for 2023
Homeowners can "recoup up to 30% of the costs of installing rooftop solar panels, battery storage and wind turbines, for example."
Also "up to 30% of the cost of home-efficiency projects, [including] energy-efficient windows and doors, insulation, electric heat pumps, and having a home energy audit to help determine the best projects to undertake."
CelloMom On Cars
Besides taking steps to safeguard the climate, #KamalaHarris has a long list of accomplishments, and most of it is unsung.
Ask your fave news outlet to start covering it. The nation deserves to know.
CelloMom On Cars
"The water investments in the bipartisan package were also Harris’ ideas. She was the lead author on [a law] that would replace #LeadPipes. Today, $15bn is being spent on this effort across the country, and the Biden-Harris administration is on track to replace 1.7m lead pipes.
When it comes to protecting people and the planet, Harris has been ahead of her time. After decades of effort, her vision for a cleaner environment has slowly but surely made its way into law."
CelloMom On Cars
"In the two years since its enactment, the #InflationReductionAct has created at least 334,565 new clean energy jobs, and over $372 billion in green energy investments across 47 states. The #IRA is particularly helping out parts of the country represented by Republican lawmakers."
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#WhatBidenDid for red states:
"That more than 190,700 of the #IRA’s clean energy jobs (and more than $286 billion in investment) are in 150 Republican-led districts shows that this bill is impacting “everywhere,” Glass says—even the places where politicians are trying to kill it. Since its passing, House #Republicans have voted 42 times to repeal the clean energy plan."
https://www.fastcompany.com/91173779/republicans-tried-to-repeal-this-climate-bill-42-times-meanwhile-it-has-brought-286-billion-to-their-districts
#InflationReductionAct
CelloMom On Cars
How #Dalton, Georgia, went from Carpet Capital to Solartown, USA
"Since the IRA passed, #Georgia has received $23 billion in clean energy factory investment, much of it flowing to northwest Georgia. I wanted to see what impact this is having on communities formerly hit hard by industrial decline, so I followed the money trail to Dalton earlier this summer.
I found a population that seems to like having advanced #solar manufacturing in their backyard."
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/how-dalton-georgia-went-from-carpet-capital-to-solartown-usa
#WhatBidenDid
CelloMom On Cars
"Republicans plotting their party’s post-election policy agenda have a decision to make: What do they do with the Democrats’ 2022 #ClimateLaw, now that its clean energy tax breaks are drawing growing GOP support?
The law is undeniably bringing federal money, private investments and jobs into communities around the country overwhelmingly represented by Republicans — and the once-united opposition is fraying."
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/25/republican-fight-inflation-reduction-act-00176223
#IRA #InflationReductionAct
CelloMom On Cars
"Don’t Believe Recent Headlines. The Inflation Reduction Act Worked.
By its own standards, the landmark piece of climate legislation was a smashing success."
https://newrepublic.com/article/184910/ira-worked-harris-climate-inflation
CelloMom On Cars
The MAGA wing of the GOP has moved from outright climate denial (hard to sustain as people are dealing with wildfires, floods, and extreme heat) to disinformation about solutions.
Be on the lookout, always fact check before you believe a claim:
Whales die on the Jersey shore from getting run over by ships not from wind parks (which haven't been built yet).
The 2021 Texas power outage was caused by gas infrastructure buckling; meanwhile, wind parks kept running.
CelloMom On Cars
Thank you for doing the real alt text work!
CelloMom On Cars
SEVEN TRILLION dollars of #FossilFuelSubsidies in only one year.
That's 7% of the entire world's GDP.
A large part of that money went to the huge profits for the fossil fuel industry.
That money was paid by all of us.
Let's get it back.
Ditch the fossil fuels.
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