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Hillary Clinton Photo by AP

Hillary Clinton
  • • Introduced a plan to Congress to create a Strategic Energy Fund that would inject $50 billion into research, development, and deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency
  • • Supports policies to reduce carbon emissions
  • • Would eliminate oil companies' tax breaks
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Mike Gravel
  • • Believes that global climate change is a matter of national security and survivability of the planet
  • • Would reduce America's carbon footprint in the world by initiating legislation to tax carbon at the source and cap carbon emissions
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Barack Obama
  • Ten-year, $150 billion program to produce "climate friendly" energy supplies
  • Says he would pay for the program with a carbon auction requiring businesses to bid competitively for the right to pollute
  • Supports an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the level recommended by top scientists
  • Aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.
  • Like McCain, sponsored earlier legislation that would set mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Supports tougher fuel-efficiency standards.