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Gore’s Challenge
Using President Kennedy’s “moonshot” goal as a model, Al Gore says we should shoot for 100 percent carbon-free electricity in ten years. How practical is it? What are the political implications? Living on Earth’s Jeff Young gives us the Gore-y details.
As energy issues dominate election year rhetoric, former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore laid out a challenge to candidates: completely carbon-free electricity within a decade. Living on Earth’s Washington correspondent Jeff Young tells us Gore’s latest campaign comes as high energy prices are eclipsing concerns about climate change.