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</div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>James Enos "Jim" Clyburn</b>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_Democratic_Party" title="United States Democratic Party" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democrat</a>, has represented the Sixth Congressional District of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Members_of_the_U.S.Congress_from_South_Carolina" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from South Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">South Carolina</a> in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.House_of_Representatives" title="U.S. House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. House of Representatives</a> since 1993 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/sc06_110.gif" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">map</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3000001907349px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13.3000001907349px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: 12.5020008087158px;"> [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Record_and_controversies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Record and controversies</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Iraq_War" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Iraq War</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Environmental_record" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Environmental record</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Meeting_with_Howard_Dean" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Meeting with Howard Dean</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#National_security_and_foreign_policy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">National security and foreign policy</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Biography" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Biography</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Congressional_career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Congressional career</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#2006_congressional_elections" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">2006 congressional elections</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#January_2009-January_2011" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.2</span> <span class="toctext">January 2009-January 2011</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Money_in_politics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Money in politics</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Committees_and_affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Committees and affiliations</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Committees" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Committees</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Previous_committee_membership" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Previous committee membership</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">109th Congress (2005-2006)</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Coaltions_and_caucuses" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">Coaltions and caucuses</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Boards_and_other_affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">5.3</span> <span class="toctext">Boards and other affiliations</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#More_background_data" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">More background data</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Contact</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Campaign_contact_information" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Campaign contact information</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Articles and resources</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">8.1</span> <span class="toctext">Resources</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">8.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Local blogs and discussion sites</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#Articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">8.2</span> <span class="toctext">Articles</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Environmental_record">Environmental record</span></h3><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In response to criticism that the Congress should lift the moratorium on offshore oil drilling, Clyburn described further domestic oil production as at best a band-aid solution. "I am an ardent supporter of expanding our country's nuclear capacity. Here in South Carolina, more than 50 percent of our electricity is produced by nuclear power. New technology makes nuclear a very safe, and viable energy alternative," Clyburn wrote in an opinion column. Clyburn approvingly cited claims by former <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Greenpeace" title="Greenpeace" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Greenpeace</a> activist turned nuclear energy industry consultant, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patrick_Moore" title="Patrick Moore" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Patrick Moore</a>, that nuclear power is "cost effective". Clyburn sought to point out that in August 2008 he would host a seminar in Charleston titled 'the Nuclear Alternative' "where we will discuss the benefits of expanding this important industry."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Clyburn#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></p></h2></div><div>
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</div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>James Enos</b> "<b>Jim</b>" <b>Clyburn</b> (born July 21, 1940) is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. Representative</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="South Carolina's 6th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">South Carolina's 6th congressional district</a>, serving since 1993, and the Assistant Democratic Leader since 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> He was previously <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_whips_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party whips of the United States House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">House Majority Whip</a>, serving in that post from 2007 to 2011. He is a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democratic Party</a>. The district includes large portions of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,South_Carolina" title="Columbia, South Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Columbia</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston,South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Charleston</a>, as well as several rural areas between them.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As Assistant Democratic Leader, he is the third-ranking Democrat in the House behind <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_leader_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Minority leader of the United States House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">House Minority Leader</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Nancy Pelosi</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_whips_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party whips of the United States House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Minority Whip</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steny_Hoyer" title="Steny Hoyer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Steny Hoyer</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3000001907349px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13.3000001907349px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: 12.5020008087158px;"> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Early life and education</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#Early_political_career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Early political career</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#U.S._House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">U.S. House of Representatives</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#Elections" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Elections</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#Tenure" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Tenure</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Committee assignments</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#Caucus_memberships" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">Caucus memberships</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#Presidential_endorsements" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Presidential endorsements</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Personal life</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li></ul></div></div><div>
</div><div>=</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While writing that series, I found other examples of how the ALEC/Edison anti-net metering resolution is being used in political channels, particularly among those that purport to represent black people’s best interests. The National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL), for instance, also <a href="http://nbcsl.org/public-policy/resolutions/item/1051-energy-transportation-and-environment-resolution-ete-14-32.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">passed a similar resolution</a> during its latest annual legislative conference. The resolution carries some of the same basic language as the ALEC version (ALEC, which is short for American Legislative Exchange Council, focuses on state legislators).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The chair of NBCSL’s Transportation and Environment committee, Florida State Rep. Joseph Gibbons, wrote an op-ed recently <a href="http://thelegislator.org/index.php/archive/spring-2014/item/5-refocusing-america-s-energy-discussion.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">making the same claim</a> that homes that generate electricity from their own solar energy equipment will mean financial burdens passed on to non-solar, African-American households. His argument was <a href="http://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2014/10/04/resolving-the-debate-over-solar-power-in-favor-of-fairness/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">imported to Wisconsin</a>, where another African-American state legislator, Sen. Lena C. Taylor, published it as a criticism of policies passed by Milwaukee’s city council to help expand solar net metering.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And it’s not just African-American politicians who are tripping over this. Monica Martinez, a former Michigan Public Service Commissioner, also wrote an <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/06/13/the-poor-shouldnt-have-to-bear-the-cost-of-solar-power/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">op-ed that’s been circulating</a> with the same ideas about raising energy rates, except for Latino households. (It was submitted to Grist to print. We turned it down.)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So what’s up with this? What is it about making it easier for Americans to transition to cleaner energy that some black and Latino politicians are just not getting?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There’s a few things to remember here when considering those questions:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One, there’s nothing unique about black and Latino policymakers that makes them allergic to clean energy policies. There are plenty of white policymakers who do the same, and they’re financially and politically backed by the same entities: utility companies, the fossil fuel industry, ALEC and similar cohorts.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Of the electric utility lobby’s <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?cycle=2014&ind=E08" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">top twenty donor recipients</a> in Congress in 2014, only two are people of color, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=E08&cycle=2012&recipdetail=A&mem=Y&sortorder=U" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2012</a>, it was just Clyburn and Obama; in <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=E08&cycle=2010&recipdetail=A&mem=Y&sortorder=U" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2010</a>, it was Clyburn alone. Of Edison Electric’s <a href="http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/edison-electric-institute/53e67592dfe64ee48bb4150545ab4a5f" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">top 10 donor recipients</a>in Congress, again, it’s just Clyburn. You might be thinking, “Somebody needs to holla at Clyburn.” That’s fine. Just so long as somebody also hollas at all the other non-Clyburn, non-black Congress members getting Edison and utility money as well.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The second thing to remember is that not all black lawmakers oppose net metering. Plenty of black organizations, including the NAACP, know better, as do<a href="http://ecoamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eA_American_Climate_Values_2014_Insights_by_Racial_Ethnic_Groups.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">most black Americans</a>. And there are many black lawmakers also committed to expanding clean energy. I covered the Congressional Black Caucus’s legislative conference last year and saw the bulk of them rise to applause when EPA Chief Gina McCarthy <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/message-from-the-epa-its-about-protecting-people-not-polar-bears/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">made a surprise visit</a> to announce her clean energy plans. At this year’s conference, Congressman Keith Ellison accepted a challenge from the Hip Hop Caucus to work to stop Congressional Black Caucus members from <a href="http://hiphopcaucus.tumblr.com/post/98473857856/hip-hop-caucus-calls-for-action-on-climate-during-44th" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">accepting fossil fuel money</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That being said, there seems to be another reason why black lawmakers are taking their cues from the fossil fuel industry on energy: Green groups and clean energy companies don’t appear to be reaching out to black politicians as aggressively as their fossil-fuel counterparts.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When you look at the advisory boards and funders of those associations that represent black public officials, you see a whole bunch of corporations of every stripe, including a whole bunch of polluters:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: inside; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s <a href="http://www.cbcfinc.org/who-we-are/advisorycouncil.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">corporate advisory board</a> has Duke Energy, which is <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000477" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">fighting solar</a> in North Carolina, and Exelon, a nuclear energy giant that solar advocates at DC Solar United Neighborhoods <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-dc-should-oppose-the-exelon-pepco-merger/2014/08/01/ee7cc1e0-1727-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">are fighting over the company’s proposed merger</a> with DC utility PEPCO.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The CBC Foundation’s <a href="http://www.cbcfinc.org/images/annualreports/CBCFAnnualReport_12.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">2012 Annual report</a> lists among its top donors Exxon Mobil, Walmart, McDonald’s, American Petroleum Institute, BP, Chevron, Duke Energy and General Electric.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The list of <a href="http://nbcsl.org/round-tables/corporate-round-table/member-corporations.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">member corporations</a> for the National Black Caucus of State Legislators includes a whole slew of fossil fuel utility and energy companies, including Edison Electric.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The National Organization of Black County Elected Officials held its annual conference in April, with <a href="http://www.nobcoinc.org/NOBCO%202014%20Program%20-%2032%20Pages%20Final%203.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">top sponsorship</a> from Edison and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But who is at these tables to counter these fossil fuel companies? You’d be hard-pressed to find the names of any clean energy companies, major green NGOs, or environmental foundations on any of those lists above.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All of those groups also get funding and have board representation from foundations that deal with fighting poverty and poor health. But they are far outnumbered by the representation of fossil fuel companies, which seem to only bring up black health and poverty at their own convenience. When it comes to solar energy, they too often are bringing them up with misleading information.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It would be great if environmental justice organizations were at these tables, but they are already overwhelmed with their work in grassroots communities. Lobbying “grasstops” organizations like National Policy Alliance is mostly outside their bailiwicks, but they don’t have the funding to take it on even if they wanted to. The major green NGOs and foundations should be at these tables, but to do that, the green NGOs need the kinds of staffs that have people who can be most effective in these policy talks.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is why diversity matters. The question for major environmental groups is whether they know the issues of African-American communities well enough to even approach tables like the National Policy Alliance. Are the green groups participating in the conferences and confabs where African-American political issues are being discussed and prioritized?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to the <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/new-report-expounds-on-old-problem-lack-of-diversity-in-green-groups/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">Green 2.0 report</a>, a comprehensive study on diversity among environmentalists released over the summer, this is one of the green organizations’ biggest weaknesses. The report found that “few of the organizations studied collaborate with ethnic minority or low-income institutions or groups,” and that they “are less likely to collaborate with low-income organizations than with ethnic minority organizations.” And yet the fossil fuel industry seems to have no problems making inroads with organizations that represent both low-income households and communities of color.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The green NGOs will often say they are not funded to do that kind of outreach. If that’s the case, then I see what environmental justice guru Robert Bullard meant when he recently made the case for <a href="http://drrobertbullard.com/2014/09/15/after-peoples-climate-march-good-time-to-diversify-funding-of-climate-justice/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">diversifying funding</a> for green causes. Wrote Bullard, shortly after the People’s Climate March:</p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0.5625rem 1.25rem 0px 1.1875rem; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(111, 111, 111); font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">This “call for funding diversity” must not be limited solely to grassroots community groups and environmental and climate justice leaders. Clearly, we need our mainstream environmental organization friends and allies in the philanthropic community who supported the People’s Climate March to join us in supporting the recommendations for diversifying funding and building an infrastructure of “grassroots” efforts, ethnic-based networks, and regional environmental and climate initiatives—better known as the Climate Justice Movement.</p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Without diverse funding and diverse staffing, the green movement will continue to find it difficult to get through to black lawmakers, whom the fossil fuel companies have no qualms about engaging. The Green 2.0 report offers recommendations for resolving these diversity problems, and Green 2.0’s <a href="http://philanthropy.com/article/GuideStar-Unveils-Online-Tool/149413/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">partnership last week with Guidestar</a>, the organization that collects information on other nonprofits nationally, should go a long way in helping track progress there. But until more is done here, I expect more resolutions like the one on net metering to continue finding easy passageways to the domains of black elected officials.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Want more on net metering? Read this next: <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/black-lawmakers-can-push-back-against-coal-utilities/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">Black lawmakers push back against coal utilities’ new trick.</a></strong></em></p></div><div></div></div></div>