Shooting the moon: the Apollo Alliance's grand vision for energy independence is a distant legislative goal, but it can help transform politics right now.(THE ENVIRONMENT: DEATH AND REBIRTH)
American Prospect, The, October, 2005 by Little, Amanda Griscom
THE MISSION OF THE 2-YEAR-OLD, WASHINGTON, D.C.-based Apollo Alliance has come to represent a bold vision of progressivism. Named for President Kennedy's moon shot, the alliance s goal is to mobilize a sweeping federal commitment to energy independence, with the triple-whammy promise of creating good jobs with new technology, bolstering national security with energy independence, and saving the planet from carbon emissions.
Apollo calls for grand-scale federal and state investment--$300 billion over 10 years--to underwrite a suite of policy measures designed to stimulate the ...
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