Left-Wing Activist Sets Himself Up to Profit From His Own Climate Plan
Founder of climate activist group calling for 'national mobilization' of economy against global warming is CEO of green infrastructure consulting firm
Bracken Hendricks / urbaningenuity.com
December 18, 2020 1:05 PM
The leader of an activist group pushing for sweeping policy change to combat global warming has positioned himself to rake in money from those changes.
Bracken Hendricks is cofounder and senior adviser to Evergreen Action, an activist group formed in April by former staffers of Washington governor Jay Inslee’s (D.) failed 2020 presidential campaign.
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Evergreen published an "Action Plan"—which echoes many of the policies put forward in the Green New Deal—in April pushing the Biden administration to adopt a "Zero-Carbon Building Standard" that would mandate that all new buildings meet climate change "resilience" standards. If enacted, the policy would also require substantial retrofitting to nearly every building in the country as part of Evergreen's "Rebuild America energy retrofit program."