By Liz Rose
In the we-could-not-have-said-it-better ourselves category: Actor, director and long time environmentalist Robert Redford authored a compelling op-ed for the Salt Lake City Tribune, as part of the effort to urge lawmakers, including Utah’s Rep. Jim Matheson to support a strong clean energy bill. Redford writes:
Right now Congress is working on a landmark clean-energy jobs plan that would boost the amount of wind, solar and other clean energy our country produces. The American Clean Energy and Security Act will also make our vehicles, appliances and buildings more efficient, and update our antiquated electricity grid.
Our investments in clean energy and efficiency today will pay dividends for generations. They will create good, family-sustaining jobs that can't be shipped overseas, and they will lower energy prices in the long run. They will reduce energy dependence and global-warming pollution, and make our economy more competitive.
It's true that the economic and environmental challenges we confront are serious. But Americans have never encountered a challenge of any kind that we couldn't overcome by working together and applying our ingenuity.
I’ve been hoping that Redford’s op-ed might at least move some of the female lawmakers!
