Conservative businessman to bankroll Republicans who support clean energy

Note: The devil is in the details here, especially in what is considered clean.

Source: The Guardian

Conservative businessman to bankroll Republicans who support clean energy

Jay Faison’s pledge part of tentative effort among small number of
Republicans to try to move party away from default position of
climate denial

Suzanne Goldenberg US environment correspondent
Tuesday 8 March 2016 20.12 GMT

A conservative entrepreneur pledged to bankroll Republican candidates who support clean energy on Tuesday in an attempt to break down the party’s wall of climate denial.

Jay Faison, a North Carolina businessman, said he was making a significant intervention in the 2016 elections through his ClearPath foundation, in the hopes of promoting what he called a conservative clean energy agenda.

The effort, which involves raising $5m for a Super Pac, a $1m digital ad campaign, and the hiring of a number of key staffers for a Washington DC office, represents a renewed effort by Faison to get his party to change its position on energy and climate change.

That vision would be unrecognisable to supporters of Barack Obama’s climate plan, however. Faison opposes the Environmental Protection Agency rules for clean power plants and is no fan of solar power or wind energy.

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The ClearPath vision of clean energy relies exclusively on hydro power, clean coal technology, nuclear energy, and natural gas – and omits any reference to solar or wind power.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/08/jay-faison-support-republicans-climate-denial-energy