Clean Energy Can Be America’s National Security Buffer

Cipher | March 9, 2022

CEBN President Lynn Abramson explores the trifecta of policy solutions America has ready to deploy to support clean energy and bolster our national security.

In an op-ed featured in Cipher, Abramson writes:

“We have a whole arsenal of our own weapons here in America in the form of clean energy technologies. Global commodities will always be acutely affected by geopolitics, but a diversified energy portfolio affords us a more reliable and lasting weapon.

National security, family budgets and climate change are all on the line. By doubling down on clean energy, Americans will be paid back threefold.”

You can read the full piece here.

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