Climate Alliance’s Anti-Affordability Platform Raises Big Election Issues

Eighteen of the 23 Climate Alliance Governorships are up for grabs in November so the Alliance’s anti-affordability platform is especially important. There are also thousands of State Legislator races. Nor does it end with this election.

Energy affordability is a central issue nationwide and the Democrats say they are all for it, but the Alliance platform says otherwise. The Democrats need to be called out on their hypocrisy so here is a quick overview of what they have signed up for in joining the Alliance.

The platform is here.

Listed below are the Alliance’s ten State-level “Policy Priorities” with some of the more anti-affordability features pointed out, to be used for questioning candidates.

Here is how the Alliance puts it: “Together, Alliance members are advancing a series of bold, high-impact actions across 10 key policy areas.”

Unfortunately the high-impact is often a hard hit on energy affordability. This anti-affordability needs to be called out, candidate by candidate.

The Climate Alliance’s ten policy priorities:

GHG Targets & Governance

Here the worst anti-affordability case is net-zero which is impossibly expensive. The Alliance says 16 of its member states already have “net-zero GHG goals” and more are wanted. In addition 20 members have “economy-wide GHG goals” and all have “State climate action plans.”

Buildings

They have a specific and incredibly expensive net-zero goal for buildings:

“Alliance members are committed to decarbonizing the buildings sector, including collectively achieving zero-emission new construction as soon as practicable, accelerating efforts to eliminate emissions from existing buildings, and collectively quadrupling heat pump installations across the coalition by 2030.”