thebigp

(this used to be called insider legislation)
Founder of climate activist group calling for 'national mobilization' of economy against g****l w*****g is CEO of green infrastructure consulting firm
Bracken Hendricks
Hayden Ludwig - DECEMBER 18, 2020
The leader of an activist group pushing for sweeping policy change to combat g****l w*****g has positioned himself to rake in money from those changes.
Bracken Hendricks is cofounder and senior adviser to Evergreen Action, an activist group formed in April by former staffers of Washington governor Jay Inslee’s (D.) failed 2020 p**********l campaign.
Evergreen published an "Action Plan"—which echoes many of the policies put forward in the Green New Deal—in April pushing the Biden administration to adopt a "Zero-Carbon Building Standard" that would mandate that all new buildings meet c*****e c****e "resilience" standards. If enacted, the policy would also require substantial retrofitting to nearly every building in the country as part of Evergreen's "Rebuild America energy retrofit program."
Enacting such demands could be lucrative for Hendricks, who is also CEO of Urban Ingenuity, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm that, according to its website, "provides innovative solutions to develop and finance advanced energy projects, building retrofits, and state of the art clean energy infrastructure" to construction developers.
Hendricks did not respond to a request for comment on his company’s potential conflict of interest by the time of publication.
Hendricks has spent his career pushing radical climate policies. He coauthored a 2007 book with Inslee calling for a massive government overhaul of the economy to halt g****l w*****g and later advised Inslee's campaign on climate policy. Hendricks is also a former climate adviser to the Clinton Global Initiative. In 2009 he penned a report that called for a national retrofit of buildings to halt g****l w*****g from his perch as a Center for American Progress senior fellow.
A national reconstruction mandate similar to the one proposed by Evergreen and Hendricks was included in the Green New Deal proposed by socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) in 2019 to "retrofit every building in America." The conservative American Action Forum estimates the Green New Deal could cost between $52 and $93 trillion by 2030 and states that its national retrofitting scheme "would have no impact on [greenhouse gas] emissions."
InfluenceWatch identifies Evergreen Action as a front for the Sixteen Thirty Fund, part of a $715 million "dark money" network run by Arabella Advisors, a center-left consulting firm. Evergreen doesn't file IRS Form 990 reports or disclose its budget but the group's "sister organization," Evergreen Collaborative, has received at least $250,000 from the liberal Hewlett Foundation. In 2019, Sixteen Thirty Fund gave $3.5 million to the League of Conservation V**ers (LCV), a Green New Deal advocacy group, and nearly $6.8 million to LCV's PAC, which spent over $60 million boosting Democrats in the 2020 e******n.
Much of Evergreen Action's "Action Plan" mimics the Green New Deal, demanding Biden enact an "environmental justice" executive order establishing an "Office of Environmental Justice" within the U.S. Justice Department to "hold polluters fully accountable under maximum application of federal law" and "pursue maximum civil and criminal penalties–in particular against repeat offenders." The mandate echoes that of Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif., D.), who decried "environmental injustice" as part of the Green New Deal legislation she cosponsored with Ocasio-Cortez.
The Green New Deal bill text compares tackling c*****e c****e with the U.S. effort in World War II, proposing a "10-year national mobilization" to stop g****l w*****g. Similarly, Evergreen Action proposes establishing a "White House Office of Climate Mobilization" by executive order modeled on the now-defunct Office of War Mobilization, a World War II agency that coordinated all government agencies in the war effort.
The group also calls for the creation of a government-funded "Climate Conservation Corps" modeled on the Great Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps that would train young Americans in retrofitting buildings and installing solar panels, send members overseas to aid in "mitigation and resilience" projects, and create labor union apprenticeships in "clean energy economy" jobs. Likewise, the Green New Deal would guarantee jobs "to all people of the United States."
Other notable policies from the Evergreen plan include a complete t***sition away from oil, coal, and natural gas by 2050, a World War II-style G.I. Bill for coal workers who lose their jobs as a result of Evergreen’s anti-coal policies, returning to the 2015 Paris climate accord on g****l w*****g, and sweeping changes to the National Labor Relations Act that would massively strengthen labor unions.

(this used to be called insider legislation)
Founder of climate activist group calling for 'national mobilization' of economy against g****l w*****g is CEO of green infrastructure consulting firm
Bracken Hendricks
Hayden Ludwig - DECEMBER 18, 2020
The leader of an activist group pushing for sweeping policy change to combat g****l w*****g has positioned himself to rake in money from those changes.
Bracken Hendricks is cofounder and senior adviser to Evergreen Action, an activist group formed in April by former staffers of Washington governor Jay Inslee’s (D.) failed 2020 p**********l campaign.
Evergreen published an "Action Plan"—which echoes many of the policies put forward in the Green New Deal—in April pushing the Biden administration to adopt a "Zero-Carbon Building Standard" that would mandate that all new buildings meet c*****e c****e "resilience" standards. If enacted, the policy would also require substantial retrofitting to nearly every building in the country as part of Evergreen's "Rebuild America energy retrofit program."
Enacting such demands could be lucrative for Hendricks, who is also CEO of Urban Ingenuity, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm that, according to its website, "provides innovative solutions to develop and finance advanced energy projects, building retrofits, and state of the art clean energy infrastructure" to construction developers.
Hendricks did not respond to a request for comment on his company’s potential conflict of interest by the time of publication.
Hendricks has spent his career pushing radical climate policies. He coauthored a 2007 book with Inslee calling for a massive government overhaul of the economy to halt g****l w*****g and later advised Inslee's campaign on climate policy. Hendricks is also a former climate adviser to the Clinton Global Initiative. In 2009 he penned a report that called for a national retrofit of buildings to halt g****l w*****g from his perch as a Center for American Progress senior fellow.
A national reconstruction mandate similar to the one proposed by Evergreen and Hendricks was included in the Green New Deal proposed by socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) in 2019 to "retrofit every building in America." The conservative American Action Forum estimates the Green New Deal could cost between $52 and $93 trillion by 2030 and states that its national retrofitting scheme "would have no impact on [greenhouse gas] emissions."
InfluenceWatch identifies Evergreen Action as a front for the Sixteen Thirty Fund, part of a $715 million "dark money" network run by Arabella Advisors, a center-left consulting firm. Evergreen doesn't file IRS Form 990 reports or disclose its budget but the group's "sister organization," Evergreen Collaborative, has received at least $250,000 from the liberal Hewlett Foundation. In 2019, Sixteen Thirty Fund gave $3.5 million to the League of Conservation V**ers (LCV), a Green New Deal advocacy group, and nearly $6.8 million to LCV's PAC, which spent over $60 million boosting Democrats in the 2020 e******n.
Much of Evergreen Action's "Action Plan" mimics the Green New Deal, demanding Biden enact an "environmental justice" executive order establishing an "Office of Environmental Justice" within the U.S. Justice Department to "hold polluters fully accountable under maximum application of federal law" and "pursue maximum civil and criminal penalties–in particular against repeat offenders." The mandate echoes that of Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif., D.), who decried "environmental injustice" as part of the Green New Deal legislation she cosponsored with Ocasio-Cortez.
The Green New Deal bill text compares tackling c*****e c****e with the U.S. effort in World War II, proposing a "10-year national mobilization" to stop g****l w*****g. Similarly, Evergreen Action proposes establishing a "White House Office of Climate Mobilization" by executive order modeled on the now-defunct Office of War Mobilization, a World War II agency that coordinated all government agencies in the war effort.
The group also calls for the creation of a government-funded "Climate Conservation Corps" modeled on the Great Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps that would train young Americans in retrofitting buildings and installing solar panels, send members overseas to aid in "mitigation and resilience" projects, and create labor union apprenticeships in "clean energy economy" jobs. Likewise, the Green New Deal would guarantee jobs "to all people of the United States."
Other notable policies from the Evergreen plan include a complete t***sition away from oil, coal, and natural gas by 2050, a World War II-style G.I. Bill for coal workers who lose their jobs as a result of Evergreen’s anti-coal policies, returning to the 2015 Paris climate accord on g****l w*****g, and sweeping changes to the National Labor Relations Act that would massively strengthen labor unions.

SWMBO

Why should this surprise anyone. If you think these people get into these fields because they want to do good things for humanity, you are dumber than a naked mole rat!!!!

SWMBO

Carol Kelly

Nothing surprises me anymore, nor will anything they can throw at us in the future.

son of witless

Now now. When the big Asteroid hits the Earth, you will wish you were a naked mole rat.

https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/could-naked-mole-rats-take-over-after-asteroid-impact-180973169/

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

I wonder where he got such an idea? Repubs should love it.

SWMBO

Actually the naked mole rat is a interesting creature. They are not true rats, spend their lives building tunnels underground and live in colonies of around 50 to 100 animals. They have special places where they deficate so as to keep the tunnels and their sleeping quarters clean and the extended families care for all the new generation of naked mole rats, not trying to k**l each others offspring. All the adults share in caring for the young once the babies are weaned. We could all learn a lot from these animals, if we can get past how UGLY they are to our eyes.

son of witless

I had read about them a very long time ago. Until I read your post I had forgotten them and had to reeducate myself. You used them as an example of low intelligence and when I researched it, I got confusing facts. The same people who said they were not that smart also remarked on their potential for intelligence, which befuddled me. For rodents are they smart or not ?

Their interesting features seem to be their social and breeding structures and their physiological adaptations for coping with their extreme low oxygen environment. They routinely tolerate conditions that would k**l us and other mammals.

SWMBO

If you read my full post you know that I actually stated that they were not stupid. Actually their social behavior and ability to keep their homes clean puts them above a large number of people. Many rodents are smart. Take a look at what they have been able to teach rats to do in a maze as well as to respond to basic hand signals. And the guinea pigs we had as pets when I was a child (a million years ago) could learn how to run a maze and also how to push the right button to get the treat out of the dispenser. But then, when you are raised on a farm you learn a lot of things city kids never learn. We even learned how to train the goats to line up in the proper order to get their treats, by how we pointed to their space in line, get in line or don't get fed.

son of witless

We had pets of all kinds growing up. I generally liked most of them with a few pointed exceptions. I liked hamsters. One of ours had babies, and when you raise them from birth, they become very easy to handle. Same with gerbils. I have no use for guinea pigs. I got bit by one. Other than eating and defecating they have the personality of a rock. Same with rabbits. We had one that used to growl at us. Another one got out of his cage, our German Sheppard chased him back into his small cage, the rabbit somehow got out and the dog became wedged like a boomerang in the cage. Quite funny for everyone but the dog.

Jlw Loc: Wisconsin

Just when think that they cannot come up with anything dumber, surprise!