Subject: Budgeting for Climate Change and other news from Dan Lashof, NextGen Climate America
From: Daniel Lashof <[email-masked]>
To: Lauren Terrazas <[email-masked]>
Cc: Daniel Lashof <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 17:04:17 +0000

President Obama released his FY2016 budget this week and it clearly reflects the priority he is placing on confronting climate change. The budget documents, for the first time, include a chapter devoted to the costs the federal government is incurring as a result of extreme weather. The upshot is that dealing with climate change is not just the right thing to do, it is the fiscally conservative thing to do, as I describe here:

https://nextgenamerica.org/climate-change/budgeting-for-climate-change/

The budget itself also includes increased investments in clean energy as well as a new program to encourage states to exceed the pollution reduction targets contained in the Clean Power Plan.  Aaron Burgess has the breakdown here:

https://nextgenamerica.org/climate-change/investing-in-americas-future/

Meanwhile, as the Keystone XL approval bill moves towards the President's desk for an expected veto, TransCanada is hedging its bets with an investment in oil-by-rail and arguing that it will get tar sands oil to the U.S. with or without Keystone. As usual, TransCanada's argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Tom Steyer provides the scrutiny in The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-steyer/transcanada-cant-change-facts-about-keystone-xl_b_6626340.html

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