Presidential Candidates: How Green Are They?
On the energy and environmental front, however, anyone following the presidential primaries today can make some fairly safe predictions about our sustainable future without even picking a winner from the thirteen major candidates. In its 2008 Voters’ Guide, the League of Conservation Voters compares the energy policies of all the presidential hopefuls. The League doesn’t over-editorialize, but it’s clear from even an unbiased reading of their positions that the country will go in a diametrically different direction in 2009 depending largely on the party of the 44th president. To compare the competing Democrats, one would think they were vying to establish which of them is the greenest one of all. And while this could be construed as oneupmanship at this point in the race, it’s also a good indication of how seriously each candidate takes ‘green’ issues. They have all published detailed, thoughtful plans on how they would deal with the issues of energy independence and climate change, an
