Rachelsactionnetwork.org: On Environmental Issues
Mary Jo believes Ohio should be a leader in renewable energy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and to create jobs. In her first term, she earned a 100 percent environmental voting record from the League of Conservation Voters and has been endorsed by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund.
Theclimatecommunity.com:
Even with the challenges in Washington there can be some progress on the Green Building front. In that regard, on February 24th the US Green Building Council released its “Top 10 List”of legislation and pending legislation in an effort to highlight areas of agreement (and potential agreement) that can positively impact the real estate community – buildings – and their impact on the environment...
- The Energy Efficiency Modernization Act of 2009 – Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Ohio)...
Those people that care about the environment continue to support Kilroy over her opponent, Stivers, a former bank lobbyist. There is an ad in today's Dispatch sponsored by the NRDC and the Blue Green Alliance which points out that Stivers wants to block clean energy jobs, which will result in those jobs being shipped to China.
**** By now you know of Republican John Kasich's ideas about trickle down economics (give tax cuts to the rich and the middle class might get a drop of relief), and his "free trade" support. Here is an ad that shows how Kasich's support of "free trade" legislation cost us jobs: (YouTube)