Hillary Clinton unveils far-reaching plan for 80% emission cuts by 2050

Hillary showed us this week what a progressive climate change policy needs to look like.

From Grist.org
Hillary Clinton delivers a doozy of a climate and energy plan
Stop us if this sounds familiar: last week, a Democratic presidential frontrunner unveiled a bold, forward-looking climate and energy plan that would fundamentally reorient the U.S. energy economy away from fossil fuels and toward renewables and efficiency. This time, the Dem in question is Hillary Clinton, who apparently didn't get the memo about being a cautious, centrist candidate. Like Edwards and Obama, she would implement a cap-and-trade system calling for 80 percent cuts of greenhouse-gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050; also like them, she would auction rather than give away 100 percent of the pollution permits. She would raise fuel-efficiency standards to 40 mpg in 2020 and 55 mpg by 2030, boost building efficiency standards, invest heavily in
renewable energy, and create a National Energy Council -- modeled on the National Security and Economic Councils -- to coordinate action across federal agencies. And that's just scratching the surface. What are activists supposed to say at this point? "Hey hey, ho ho, quit giving us everything we want so we have something left to put on our placard!"
Some reflections on the strengths and weaknesses of Hillary's new proposal -
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/11/5/12120/4392/?source=weekly