Activists Call For Clean Energy Revolution

Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 5:53PM
Staff in News/Commentary

As the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day approaches, representatives from leading environmental and progressive organizations took to Capitol Hill Thursday to demand a clean energy revolution.

“I take the words revolution very seriously,” said Reverend Lennox Yearwood, the president of political organization the Hip Hop Caucus. “I understand that it is a very serious claim to make, but unfortunately, one that we must make today.”

Yearwood was joined by, among others, Sierra Club President Allison Chin, Rock the Vote’s Executive Director Heather Smith and environmental pioneer Denis Hayes, who was the national coordinator for the first Earth Day.

The participants signed a declaration calling for the Senate to hasten their action on climate change legislation.

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