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"Climate: Meet the Scholar Crafting the 'Green New Deal'" [1]

"Think of it as the policy muscle behind the promised 'Green New Deal.'

A policy group is being formed to support an energized progressive movement that's taken Capitol Hill by storm under the leadership of Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

It's called the New Consensus.

The 501c(3) nonprofit is in the process of being formed to provide a policy platform that will underpin the ambitious — and increasingly politically popular — Green New Deal aimed at weaning the United States off fossil fuels, boosting renewables and clean energy jobs, and building a 'smart' grid.

Front and center will be Rhiana Gunn-Wright, a 29-year-old Yale graduate and Rhodes scholar who will serve as the group's policy director working to flesh out details of the plan."

Hannah Northey reports for Greenwire November 27, 2018. [2]

Climate Change [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Public [6]
Source: Greenwire [2], 11/28/2018
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-meet-scholar-crafting-green-new-deal [2] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060107485 [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81