{"id":41266,"date":"2021-03-06T06:54:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T10:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/?p=41266"},"modified":"2021-03-06T06:54:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T10:54:58","slug":"eei-statement-on-the-clean-future-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/eei-statement-on-the-clean-future-act\/","title":{"rendered":"EEI STATEMENT ON THE CLEAN FUTURE ACT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Edison.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Edison.png 200w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Edison-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Edison-70x70.png 70w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Edison-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>WASHINGTON (March 2, 2021) \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Executive Vice President for Public Policy and External Affairs Brian Wolff today issued the following statement on the release of the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation\u2019s (CLEAN) Future Act:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEEI\u2019s member companies\u2014our nation\u2019s investor-owned electric companies\u2014are leading the clean energy transformation. We are committed to getting the energy we provide as clean as we can as fast as we can, without compromising on the reliability and the affordability that our customers value.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cToday, nearly 40 percent of the nation\u2019s electricity comes from carbon-free sources, including nuclear energy, hydropower, wind, and solar energy. And carbon emissions from the U.S. electric power industry are at their lowest level in more than 30 years\u2014and continue to fall. As of year-end 2019, the U.S. electric power industry has reduced its carbon emissions more than 33 percent below peak 2005 levels.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhile we still are reviewing the details of the legislation, climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time, and we are encouraged that there are more policymakers on both sides of the aisle who want to address climate change and advance clean energy development and deployment than ever before.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe look forward to continuing to work with members of Congress and with the Biden administration, as they work to address climate change and clean energy infrastructure.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Media Contact<\/div>\n<div><strong>EEI Media Relations<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Brian Reil<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"mailto:breil@eei.org\">breil@eei.org<\/a><\/div>\n<div>202-508-5514<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eei.org\/resourcesandmedia\/newsroom\/Pages\/Press%20Releases\/www.eei.org\">www.eei.org<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (March 2, 2021) \u2013\u00a0Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Executive Vice President for Public Policy and External Affairs Brian Wolff today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","month_date":"Mar","day_date":"6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}