Published

2 years ago

August 15, 2024

Alice Rush

This post is part of a series of blogs examining where 2024 Southeastern candidates for state and federal offices stand on key energy and climate issues.

Note: The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy does not support or oppose candidates or political parties. Links to reports, candidate websites and outside sources are provided as citizen education tools.

In this blog post, we examine the policies and positions of Mark Green, the Republican Party candidate running for reelection to represent Tennessee Congressional District 7 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Also in this series, we profile Democratic candidate Megan Barry. Election Day is November 5, 2024.

Dr. Mark Green is the U.S. Representative for Tennessee’s 7th congressional district. Prior to his time in Congress, he served as a Tennessee state senator, and served two decades in the United States Army. Green founded an emergency department staffing company and two medical clinics after retiring from the Army.

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

Representative Green has expressed on social media site X (formerly Twitter), “Americans wouldn’t be subject to these hikes in oil prices if the Democrats quit waging war on energy. We don’t need a Green New Deal – we need energy independence!”

Climate Change

When asked if he would join efforts to stabilize the climate at a town hall in 2018, Green’s response was “I’m not yet convinced that the science is proving that we’re warming.”

Electric Transportation

Representative Mark Green voted in favor of an amendment that would eliminate funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus Program. The program was created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and is providing $5 billion towards the replacement of existing diesel school buses with clean zero emissions school buses.

Energy Equity and Energy Burden

We were unable to confirm the candidate’s position on this energy-related issue in published media, public records, or the campaign website.

High-Risk Energy

When answering the question “Why are you running for office?” for the Tennessean candidate questionnaire Mark Green included in his answer, “I am not willing to stand by and watch the radical left’s assault on oil and gas”.

Voting Information

Election Day is November 5. Here are important dates and deadlines to consider, from the Tennessee Secretary of State:

Aug. 7, 2024: First day to make an absentee ballot request
Oct. 7, 2024: Voter registration deadline
Oct. 16, 2024: In-person early voting begins
Oct. 29, 2024: Absentee ballot request deadline
Oct. 31, 2024: In-person early voting ends
Nov. 5, 2024: General Election Day
Nov. 5, 2024: Absentee ballot return deadline

For more information about being a Tennessee voter, including registering, finding your polling place, and requesting an absentee ballot, visit proudvoter.org.

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Renewable Energy

Things Have Changed

Published

8 hours ago

June 9, 2026

Alice Rush

To the author of the meme here, I respond:

Yes, all this is true. But we must never forget that we voted for this, not once but twice.

Still, a full 30% of us support the lies, the stupidity, and the criminality, while our enemies are popping to the tops off of champagne bottles. Russia took us down without firing a shot. China is making its way toward world domination, largely because the United States committed suicide.

Fifty years ago, we were a reasonably well-educated and principled people.

Now, we’re a blend of greedy pigs and hateful imbeciles.

We have no one to blame for the implosion of America but ourselves.

It would be incorrect to say that literally no one saw this coming, but it took the overwhelming majority of the world by complete surprise.

Things Have Changed

Renewable Energy

America’s Cultural, Moral, and Spiritual Decay

Published

9 hours ago

June 9, 2026

Alice Rush

Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt makes an important point here, one that makes us wonder exactly how long it’s going to take to repair the damage that Trump has inflicted on our country.

Let’s say that the midterm elections shift the balance of power in congress and Trump is removed from power in the first half of 2027. Perhaps this will happen on the basis of his senility, using the 25th Amendment. Or better, he’ll be impeached and convicted for any of dozens of the crimes he’s committed.

As much of the physical damage as possible will be undone, almost overnight. No Trump names on public buildings. Tariffs removed. Science re-instated as the pillar of policy making and public health. No more idiot sycophants in key positions. Iran and the U.S. (somehow) move back into the relationship we had before Trump’s asinine and illegal war.

The vast majority of Americans and virtually everyone else on Earth will breathe a huge sigh of relief.

But even if this happens swiftly, it will most certainly not make the “Trump phenomenon” vanish into the mist. People all around the globe will continue to regard the former envy of the world as a nation of hateful idiots, and it’s likely that this perception, as many have suggested, will take a generation or so to lift.

Canadian PM Mark Carney is predicting that, given the implosion of the U.S., that a new world order is forming with Europe as its center. Maybe “a generation or so” won’t get the job done. Maybe American dominance is gone forever.

And maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Imagine for a moment that billionaires didn’t control every facet of life here, and that our nation morphs into one that resembles the more enlightened places on this planet, where its people are well-educated and feel a distinct level of compassion for one another.