Ernest J. Moniz

If we do not address the issue of jobs and communities, we will have headwinds in making our climate progress.

I am very bullish on solar, I have to say.

I strongly support your focus on Federal buildings, and I would urge going further to have energy efficiency programs.

Dependence on 100% renewables is not yet realistic and certainly not cost effective.

Net-zero by 2035 in the electricity sector.

We need to really think about addressing our security and our climate issues in an integrative way.

Climate change is a risk to our national security broadly, which has, of course, energy security implications as well.

It produces more than 60 percent of our non-greenhouse-gas emitting power, making nuclear energy our Nation's single largest contributor of carbon-free electricity.

I agree, certainly, with Senator Feinstein that we must find a sustainable path forward for the storage and disposal of nuclear waste.

For the past two decades, nuclear power has reliably and economically contributed nearly 20 percent of electricity generated in the United States.

So, if we don't protect the energy sector, we're putting, essentially, every other sector in the economy in peril.