Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Sunrise Movement" in English language version.
The Sunrise Movement is registered as a 501(c)4, and launched with the goal of influencing the 2018 midterm elections, heavily emphasizing climate policies, and uniting volunteers and staff from the divestment movement and protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Her first act when she arrived in Washington for new-member orientation was to join the Sunrise Movement's sit-in outside Pelosi's office, to call for a select committee for the Green New Deal. It started with a request for a retweet from the activists, who knew the young congresswoman and her staff only slightly. "Alexandria was, like, 'Shoot them a retweet? I'm going to join it,' " Chakrabarti said.
Sunrise's explicit goal is to keep average global temperatures from rising by 1.5 degrees Celsius.
By Friday night, the video the Sunrise Movement shared on Twitter, which had been edited and focused on clips of the most tense moments from the meeting, had been viewed more than 3m times.
The office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a fierce environmentalist who ushered the cap-and-trade bill through the lower chamber almost a decade ago, declined to comment about the Democrats' future climate plans.
The idea of a select committee has the backing of leading Democrats, including expected Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) But it faces opposition from some other House Democrats in line to lead major committees, like Energy and Commerce's Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and Transportation and Infrastructure's Pete DeFazio (D-Ore.), who think their panels are suited to handle the task of major climate legislation themselves.
As you correctly point out, the resolution does not mention nuclear power, it does not mention carbon capture and sequestration, it does not mention banning air travel, it does not mention banning beef in the United States. It does not mention any of those things...Nuclear power is not excluded, but it must compete with renewables. They are cheaper, but that's the marketplace at work. We're not excluding it.
