Published

2 years ago

December 24, 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 Gloria Johnson, the Democratic Party candidate running for election to represent Tennessee in the United States Senate. Also in this series, we profile Republican candidate Marsha Blackburn. Election Day is November 5, 2024.

Gloria Johnson was a special education teacher in Knoxville, Tennessee for 27 years before retiring in 2015. She ran for the District 13 seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives and won, serving as their representative for a total of three terms. After redistricting, Johnson ran in District 90 and has been their representative since 2022. Gloria Johnson gained national attention as one of the “Tennessee Three” in 2023 after she and two of her Democrat colleagues faced expulsion from the Tennessee House of Representatives for joining protesters in calling for better gun control from the House floor.

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

Rep. Johnson has spoken out against efforts to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, the landmark federal law that is driving historic investment into clean energy.

Climate Change

After the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to limit the EPA’s options for using the Clean Air Act to curtail carbon emissions from existing power plants, Gloria Johnson reacted by saying “Hard to believe that power and greed will make people destroy this beautiful home of ours. There is much to do to right these wrongs-I believe that we will win.”

Electric Transportation

In 2021, Gloria Johnson celebrated the announcement of a 3,600-acre battery and vehicle manufacturing campus in West Tennessee by saying “It’s an amazing announcement. Let’s make sure this deal ends with Tennesseans producing the electric vehicles that win the marketplace with a good wage and good benefits.”

Energy Equity and Energy Burden

In 2020, Representative Johnson expressed her support for ACT on KUB, a campaign to bring more accountability, cost-savings, and transparency for customers of utility provider Knoxville Utilities Board through an amendment to the city charter.

High-Risk Energy

In 2013, Gloria Johnson co-sponsored the Scenic Vistas Protection Act which would have restricted permits given to companies to conduct mountaintop removal coal mining.

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

Indoctrinating Children into Religion

Published

10 hours ago

October 6, 2026

Alice Rush

All I can say about the me here is that personally I refused, against considerable pressure from my family, to indoctrinate my children into something I myself could not accept.

Is it actually “psychological abuse” to indoctrinate children into monotheistic religion? Whether to take it that far is an open question.

My parents, both atheists, sent my brother and me to Sunday School, as they thought it wrong to cut us off from a modality of growing up in America in the early 1960s. I don’t blame them, but again, it’s not something I was willing to replicate with my own children.

Indoctrinating Children into Religion

Renewable Energy

Republicans’ Last-Ditch Effort to Lie to Voters

Published

13 hours ago

October 6, 2026

Alice Rush

In less than a month, we’re going to learn how many idiots are buying this socialism crap.

Sure, there are people who don’t know anything about the way people live in northern England, New Zealand, Costa Rica, etc. Most of these people couldn’t find these countries on this globe.

But how many can there possibly be?

Clearly, Republicans are desperate, but isn’t asking voters to believe that the Swedes have to rely on the government for their job, salary, and food a bit over-the-top?

Republicans’ Last-Ditch Effort to Lie to Voters

Renewable Energy

America in Collapse

Published

16 hours ago

October 6, 2026

Alice Rush

I got the meme here from a neighbor, but I wonder who actually wrote it. There is a ton of propaganda on social media suggesting that we need to normalize the sociopathic criminality of the U.S. president.

It’s true that not every election is an apocalypse, but 2024 was disastrous for the U.S. democracy.

Yes, the country did not end. But it took a giant leap towards authoritarianism.

Even that’s not the end of the world. Democracies fail with great frequency on this planet. I just never thought I’d be living in the biggest socio-political collapse in the last 2000 years.

In an average week, I meet quite a few travelers here from lands all around this planet. Their most common thoughts on what’s happening here: “We simply feel sorry for you.”