Heinrich: We Need to Act on Climate and Electrify for Peace

On March, 16, 2022, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), founder and Co-Chair of the Electrification Caucus, participated in a virtual press conference hosted by Rewiring America to discuss addressing Russia’s unjustified war in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s global energy price hike by accelerating our transition to clean energy, passing climate investments, and securing true American energy independence. During his remarks, Senator Heinrich said that, “Banning the import of Russian oil and gas, which fuels Putin’s unjustified war atrocities in Ukraine, was the right thing to do. But this whole scenario has demonstrated just how dangerous—and just how costly—our dependence on fossil fuels has become.”