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July 28, 2015

Clinton aims high in green energy plan

By CATHERINE LUCEY and KEN THOMAS
Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa — Calling climate change one of the “most urgent threats of our time,” Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out elements of a sweeping plan Monday that would see every U.S. home powered by renewable energy by 2027, even as she declined to take a position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline opposed by environmental activists.

The Democratic presidential candidate called for installing 500 million solar panels by 2020 as part of a plan she likened in its ambitions to President John F. Kennedy's moonshot in the 1960s.


 
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