Clinton vows to boost U.S. clean energy use in response to climate change

(Reuters, 27 Jul 2015) U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday described climate change as "one of most urgent threats of our time" and vowed to meet the challenge with a plan to generate enough clean energy to power every U.S. home by 2027.

The Democratic front-runner compared fighting climate change to the race to put an American on the moon by the end of the 1960s.

"The next decade will be as decisive for climate change as the decade for getting to the moon was for space exploration," Clinton said at a campaign stop in Iowa, which will hold the first presidential nominating contest in February.

"Sea levels are rising, ice caps are melting, storms, wildfires and extreme weather are wreaking havoc. This is one of most urgent threats of our time and we have no choice but to rise and meet it," said Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in the November 2016 election.

Clinton promised to have more than half a billion solar panels installed nationwide within four years if she makes it to the White House.

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