My White House petition: Create clean energy jobs in coal mining communities

The Obama administration created a new petition tool at the White House website. I don't know whether it will have much impact but it looks interesting enough that I'll give it a try. It encourages people to pester their friends about signing a petition. Most of my friends should be used to that by now anyway.

If 5,000 people sign the petition in 30 days then it will be reviewed and receive a response from White House officials. It will surprise no one that I created a petition about clean energy and coal.

Create clean energy jobs in coal mining communities

Every region that bases its economy on coal mining is poor. Many clean energy jobs are being created nationally, but most of them are not in coal mining regions. Instead, coal communities are sold on unproven "clean coal" pipe dreams backed by federal subsidies and Department of Energy loan guarantees. How can real clean energy jobs be directed to coalfield communities so that unemployed miners will have an economic future beyond coal?

If you like it then click the link to sign and we'll see how this petition thing works.