CLIMATE CHANGE
In New Hampshire, we’re seeing the effects of climate change threaten our agriculture, industry, and economic stability. Despite clear evidence, Republicans in Concord and Washington have resisted every effort to pass clean energy legislation to mitigate climate change.
Did you know…
…that Gov. Sununu is the only governor in New England who has not joined the U.S. Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of 24 governors committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions?
…that Gov. Sununu has vetoed all important climate and renewable energy expansion legislation for NH, leaving us prey to steeply rising costs and harmful dirty energy sources?
Half of New Hampshire has been in a moderate to severe drought this past summer. Climate change threatens to make droughts more common in our state, as hotter summers cause more evaporation and rain cannot make up the difference.
Ted Diers, administrator of the Watershed Management Bureau at the Department of Environmental Services, says “drought is a slow-motion disaster,” threatening New Hampshire farms, forests, and ski resorts.
At the national level, the 2020 RNC Platform states: "Climate change is far from this nation’s most pressing national security issue. This is the triumph of extremism over common sense, and Congress must stop it." GOP policy guidance is to leave climate issues to the ‘free hand of the market.’
Democrats are aligned with the overwhelming body of scientific evidence that warns of the existential danger posed by fossil-fuel-generated greenhouse gas emissions. Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act, passed with the help of Senator Maggie Hassan and Congressman Chris Pappas, makes the largest-ever investment in clean energy and harmful pollution reduction to lower our energy costs and protect our planet.