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      Joining E2 is the most effective way to stay informed about cutting-edge environmental issues, leverage your professional network, and use your skills to influence important environmental policy issues. 
 
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 E2 Advocacy - EnergyAmerica needs new energy policies that are fully aligned with our global warming goals (see E2's global warming campaign page). Bills that create incentives for efficiency, renewable energy, biofuels and green jobs development should be considered, but also weighed against the risks of unbridled expansion of energy crop production at the expense of land, water and air quality. Caution must also be exercised against jumpstarting new coal-to-liquid or tar-sands industries that would actually increase carbon emissions from vehicle fuels relative to gasoline. To foster the development of effective Low-Carbon Fuel Standards to create markets for cleaner fuels, stimulate job growth, and reduce the carbon emissions from transportation fuels. Completed CampaignsNearly 100 percent of California's transportation system is currently fueled by fossil fuels. A more diversified approach to fuels and higher efficiency vehicles will help reduce greenhouse gas pollution from motor vehicles, reduce the state's dependence on foreign oil and encourage a healthy alternative fuels market that would benefit the agriculture and bio-tech industries. The prior Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS), required regulated electric utilities to increase their use of wind, solar and other eligible renewable electricity sources by at least one percent per year, reaching at least 20 percent by 2010. California now has an improved RPS that increases the mandated use of renewables to at least 33 percent by 2020. |
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