Environmental Groups Claim Clean Energy Victory In Off-Year Elections

Environmentalists are touting the results of Nov. 7 off-year elections as evidence that several Republican attacks on clean energy initiatives failed to gain political traction, while also noting that the results avoided power shifts in key states that could have resulted in new barriers to clean energy efforts. “Republicans ran against clean energy and lost,” declares a Nov. 8 press release from Climate Power, a coalition of several progressive groups including the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Similarly, Sierra...