Sierra Club Endorses Hillary Clinton for President!

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Sierra Club @sierraclub
Sierra Club has endorsed @HillaryClinton for president! Read our statement: http://sc.org/1td0LbL

Nation’s Largest and Most Influential Grassroots Environmental Organization Cites Clinton’s Detailed Plans and Ability to Build on Obama’s Legacy

Thursday, June 9, 2016

San Francisco, CA -- Today, the Sierra Club endorsed Secretary Hillary Clinton for President.

In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:

“We firmly believe Secretary Clinton will be the strong environmental champion that we need to lead our country, which is why the Sierra Club is proud to endorse her and her vision for America.

“Over the last eight years, our country has made enormous advancements in cutting carbon pollution, transitioning away from dirty fuels, and increasing clean energy deployment. Secretary Clinton has a long record on the environment and is the leader we need to build on this progress made by President Obama and the climate movement. She has listened to the grassroots and crafted detailed plans to safeguard our climate, air, water, and public lands, to protect the most vulnerable from environmental injustice, and to continue the rapid expansion of our clean energy economy.

“Senator Bernie Sanders and his millions of supporters ran a hard-fought campaign and helped elevate climate change and protecting our environment while reducing inequality as key issues in the Democratic Primary. Senator Sanders and his supporters brought the passionate, principled advocacy that we need, and we are eager to work together to raise these issues in every campaign--not just the presidential race.

“Together, Senator Sanders and Secretary Clinton made this an election about the issues and finding real solutions. Solutions like protecting our oceans and public lands from fossil fuel development; rejecting dangerous trade deals such as the Trans Pacific Partnership; and transitioning onto 100% clean, renewable energy.

“Contrasted with that, we have a reckless and misinformed candidate in Donald Trump, who has called climate change a “hoax,” a “con job,” and a “concept created by the Chinese.” Trump’s record setting contradictory statements includes his “energy plan.” Trump claims he’ll protect clean air and water but has pledged to dismantle the EPA. He offers vague promises to create jobs but would stifle growth in wind and solar, which are among the fastest growing sectors of the U.S. economy. And when he gets to specifics, Trump makes rash promises, like ripping up the Paris Climate Agreement, a landmark agreement that brought 196 countries together for the first time in history. The gap on environmental and climate issues between Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump is the largest in U.S. political history.

“The Sierra Club, like so many Americans, not only wants to protect President Obama’s legacy--we want to expand it. That is something we can accomplish with a Clinton White House, and it’s why the Sierra Club’s members and supporters will work tirelessly to make sure she’s elected this November. We have an historic opportunity to build a clean energy economy that puts millions of people to work, and there’s no turning back.”

read: http://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2016/06/sierra-club-endorses-hillary-clinton-president

[RandySF]

1. Here cones the bus in three...two....one

[TheBlackAdder]

47. Algae creates oxygen. Radioactive fracking waste in rivers/lakes creates large extremophile algae.

[MineralMan]

2. Yay!

[workinclasszero]

3. Yay!

[Hoyt]

4. Excellent. Now comes the, "That's the leadership, which didn't poll the members."

[DemMomma4Sanders]

22. Thats a moot point. People should be more concerned with sierra endorsing someone recieving

funds from Fossil fuel companies.

[Hoyt]

26. Well, they did and I don't see where Clinton has done anything for fossil fuel but take

their money to use against GOPers. She has also gotten funds from unions, environmental groups, civil rights groups, women's groups, etc. They'll get something, a good Prez.

[DemMomma4Sanders]

28. Ehhhh Bullhonkey.

“Secretary Clinton’s role in fracking when she was secretary of state is not a good record,” Mr. Sanders said. “Secretary Clinton and her State Department worked to export fracking throughout the world.”

The senator added that Mrs. Clinton used fracking to reward companies like Chevron, Haliburton, and Exxon Mobil and that he, as president, would push to end fracking everywhere.

Mr. Sanders also said Mrs. Clinton was late to opposing the Keystone XL oil pipeline and that she does not support legislation he introduced calling for a carbon tax to discourage the use of greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels. He also pointed out that unlike Mrs. Clinton, he opposes offshore drilling and would end leases for the extraction of fossil fuel on public lands.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/11/bernie-sanders-proposes-fracking-ban-and-attacks-hillary-clinton-on-the-environment/?_r=0

This after Scienntific consensus was that fracking was horrible for the environment and likely caused thousands of mini earthquakes.

[Hoyt]

29. Sanders said a lot of junk, voters didn't buy it.

[DemMomma4Sanders]

34. So you're saying that it isn't true that Hillary was promoting fracking in France, The UK,

Australia and here to help punish Putin?

I love how you point out that the base you represent willfully ignore facts if they don't align wih their "feels".

Meanwhile how many earthquakes has fracking caused?

About 7.9 million people are now at risk from these man-made earthquakes, including certain regions in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Arkansas, the U.S. Geological Survey said this week. Even though these earthquakes don't factor in building-code maps, they create a hazard to buildings, bridges, pipelines and other key structures, according to the government agency that studies the U.S. landscape.

This is the first time the government has created maps that show the risk of so-called "induced" earthquakes. The agency defined these as tremors in a region with increased earthquake rates attributable to "human activities, such as fluid injection or extraction."

Fluid injection is a controversial tactic tied to hydraulic fracturing, the drilling technique known as "fracking" that has dramatically increased U.S. oil and gas production. When oil and gas is pumped out of the ground, salty water often flows out with it. This water is typically injected back under high pressure into disposal wells -- a practice that the geological agency has said can induce earthquakes.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/29/investing/earthquakes-fracking-usgs-oil-gas/

[Hoyt]

36. She was probably promoting gas rather than oil, and you guys spun it into BS.

Nuance and research aren't Berners' thing.

[DemMomma4Sanders]

37. That woukd be fracking, lol.

The two can't be seperated........Nuanced any way you like.

[840high]

61. Thank you.

[bjobotts]

60. Maybe the Sierra club members can persuade Clinton to stop supporting fracking and ban it.

It took them until the end of the nominating process to support her...who's left since she is the presumptive nominee.
I support Obama for president...oh that's right.

[Hoyt]

63. I guess you have not read her position on fracking. You'd be tickled.

[rhett o rick]

5. The Sierra Club went over to the Corporate side years ago. They accept "donations" from

the Big Corporations that are destroying our environment. The Big Money can buy elections, candidates and environmental organizations.

Fracking, the bridge to our new energy independence. Let's frack in all our National Parks. It's one thing that the Corporate Democrats agree with the Republicons.

[lewebley3]

6. No, Sierra is backing Hillary because they are smart: you are a bitter loser

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[rhett o rick]

13. "executive director, Michael Brune, admitted in Time magazine that the Sierra Club had, between 2007

and 2010, clandestinely accepted $25 million from the fracking industry, with most of the donations coming from Chesapeake Energy."
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/03/26/breaking-sierra-club

I am bitter that the fracking queen may become the Democratic nominee. Fracking the bridge to a ruined economy. Chevron loves Clinton and I guess that's more important than peoples' water quality.

[lancer78]

16. My advice to you

is to just let her have "Her Turn". Support her on the outside, but remember what you support on the inside. That is what I am doing.

Another bonus from doing that is when she loses, the Progressives cannot be blamed, and we can tell the "Third Way" democrats that they should have listened to us.

[rhett o rick]

17. Good advice. They are already setting up their excuses for losing to Trump like they did

in 2000. Their mistake is hubris.

[SCantiGOP]

33. Tiresome

[rhett o rick]

39. LOL. Side with the Big Money and then think you can gloat. We are determine to fight for

those among us that are struggling. Why you side with the Rich and Wealthy is your business. I am guessing you really like to be on the winning side and not the side fighting for justice and democracy. It is easier. I will give you that.

[SCantiGOP]

42. tiresome and nonsensical

[rhett o rick]

53. I find that those that side with the corporations like to dismiss issues with comments like

nonsensical in lieu of actually refuting the argument. Some say it's an arrogance thing but I don't agree.

[riversedge]

46. Shame on you for name calling.

[rhett o rick]

49. Shame on those that put fracking oil profits ahead of human lives.

There are two sides, those that want to save our environment and those that think corporate profits are more important.

[Herman4747]

30. Primitive, juvenile name calling is how you argue, huh? n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Get off my Lawn!!!!

[Tarc]

10. Ok, Abe

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C'mon, the now the sierra Club isn't liberal enough for you?

[obamanut2012]

12. hahahahahahaha

[rhett o rick]

40. Laugh and gloat as you will. You sided with the Big Money because youwanted to be on the

side of the winner and not really caring about those among us that are struggling. Don't tell me you care because if you choose the side of the Big Money you can't be on the side of the poor. It's your choice and you have to live with it.

[NurseJackie]

7. I'm sure we'll be treated to at least one comment about how the Sierra Club *waited* (gasp!) until …

... Hillary was the presumptive nominee, along with coy and cleverly-worded insinuations that the endorsement is "worthless" because they didn't have the courage to endorse sooner.

PS: Congrats to Hillary and her team! That's a nice endorsement to have and they should be very proud to have it.

[BootinUp]

9. K & R

[chapdrum]

11. Sheer claptrap.

Forced fracking on Romania. What a climate champion.

Too bad the Sierra Club has to rely on corporate donations, just like HRC.

[Jamaal510]

14. K&R

[Maru Kitteh]

15. K&R! A great honor!

[auntpurl]

18. Another wonderful endorsement!

[Hekate]

19. Excellent and meaningful. When Sierra Club endorsed our local candidate for the House...

....it carried a lot of weight in our environmentally-conscious coastal community. It means a lot when they endorse a presidential candidate too.

[bluestateguy]

20. Yeah, but they're the establishment

So are the United Steelworkers. And the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. They're establishment too.

[brooklynite]

21. Did they survey all the rabbits?

[okasha]

23. 98% of Texas cottontails and Jackrabbits

support Hillary.

2% support Fiver, who is not a declared candidate at this time.

[brooklynite]

25. No support for Limberbutt McCubbins?

[okasha]

38. The raw data indicate he is the strong preference

among domestic cats, jaguarundis, and bobcats. Approval is also good among mountain lions, but they are concorned that McCubbins lacks gravitas.

[ismnotwasm]

24. K&R

[aikoaiko]

27. I'm Ok with organizations endorsing HRC for President, but not Dem nominee

They are looking at Trump versus HRC for the president.

[livetohike]

31. YAY! An avalanche of endorsements. N/t

[Agnosticsherbet]

32. Excellent. I like the Sierra Club.

[riversedge]

35. wonderful. Thanks for the post

[jcgoldie]

41. confederates nt

[mike45567]

43. Not your daddy's Sierra club. Not your daddy's Democrats.

The good guys, right?
Saving the world.
Nope.
Bought by fracker Aubrey McClendon for 25 million. Their silence has enabled Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's fracking environmental catastrophe.
Nothing survives oligarchy's money corruption. They have always owned Hillary. She is the bride of Frackenstein.
You are the fracker party.

[ozone_man]

52. Wow! I suspected there was a catch.

Hillary's support of fracking should not lead to enforcement by any credible environmental group.

[dbackjon]

44. Environment - another huge reason why the GOP must lose

Clinton has good environmental chops

[Gene Debs]

45. Yes, the woman who's pushed hard for fracking just about everywhere except on the moon gets the

Sierra Club's endorsement. It's not surprising, really; the Sierra Club has been putting corporate money ahead of the environment for at least two decades now. Gimme a break.

[DCBob]

48. This was the best part..

Secretary Clinton has a long record on the environment and is the leader we need to build on this progress made by President Obama and the climate movement. She has listened to the grassroots and crafted detailed plans to safeguard our climate, air, water, and public lands, to protect the most vulnerable from environmental injustice, and to continue the rapid expansion of our clean energy economy.

[Thinkingabout]

51. Thanks Sierra Club and thanks for posting.

[robbedvoter]

54. Establishment?😱

[LenaBaby61]

55. FANTASTIC!!!

[B Calm]

56. What's the Sierra Club stance on fracking?

[OwlinAZ]

57. Anything is better than Trump.

Silence is golden.

[Sienna86]

59. I was wondering the same thing.

Perhaps it's okay globally, just not in the US?

[raindaddy]

58. I'm sure the frackers'll come up with just the right chemical cocktail to appease Hillary...

And then there's the pondering, big oil appeasing, incremental response to climate change..

But she's going to have that same forceful conversations with mother nature that she had with Wall Street. "Cut it out!"

[Mr Maru]

62. Good deal!