Talk:Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

Hi, this is Ross.cres. I would like to request several edits to the article as follows:

• Please add the following sentence as a new paragraph, to the History section, right below the first sentence: In 2018 CRES received a $1 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation.^[1]

• Done. This is the kind of information that a Wikipedia article should focus on.

• In order to update the Activities section, please add the following sentences directly after the Activity section's first sentence: In 2020 CRES endorsed incumbent senators Lindsay Graham,^[2] Susan Collins,^[3] Thom Tillis,^[4] and Cory Gardner.^[5] In 2020 CRES endorsed 17 Republican candidates for the House Representatives.^[6]

• Partly done. I added the named people. I don't think it helps to give the a number of unnamed people.

• Directly after the following sentence in the Activities section: "In 2018, CRES named six other elected officials as clean energy champions: Gary Herbert, Larry Hogan, Lisa Murkowski, Tom Reed, Tim Scott and Elise Stefanik," please add as a new paragraph the following: In May 2020 CRES launched a digital campaign called Clean Energy Forward. Its goal was to alert Republican lawmakers "to make clean energy a centerpiece of the nation's economic recovery from COVID-19." ^[1] In 2017 CRES had an ad campaign directed at President Trump to either stay in the Paris climate accords, or to renegotiate.^[1]

• I added the ad campaign and names of endorsed politicians. The rest sounded promotional and trivial to me.

• In the next paragraph, directly after the sentence "The organization also publishes polls that analyzes voters’ sentiments toward clean energy policies and the elected officials who support those solutions," please add the following sentences and sources: A June 2020 poll conducted by CRES revealed that Republican voters agree with Democrats and independent voters that the government should address climate change and environmental issues.^[7] A February 2020 poll showed that over two-thirds of young voters were more likely to vote for a Republican candidate who states that climate change is real.^[1]

• Done

• Please add one last paragraph to the Activities section right below the last paragraph: In 2020 CRES held a clean energy boot camp for Republican candidates encouraging them to talk about clean energy in relation to economic security and clean jobs, and to help address climate change by advancing clean energy sources and using the free market.^[1]

• Not done. I think this is trivia.

I am calling on The Drover's Wife to help with these edit requests since s/he is the editor that accepted the article from AfC. Thank you so much for all your help. Ross.cres (talk) 13:12, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

The Activities section contains a lot of news announcements that don't belong in an encyclopedia, and it reads like a blog. Please keep in mind that Wikipedia is not a newspaper or a soapbox. I'm going to remove a bunch of news announcements and advocacy, and move some statements to other sections. I'll delete the Activities section altogether since this kind of heading tends to be a magnet for unencyclopedic information. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 16:47, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

I've finished answering the requested edits and did some further cleanup. I know this isn't exactly what you asked for, but I think it results in an article that sounds more credible and professional, which will reflect better on CRES. Ross.cres, feel free to further adjust the formatting in list of politicians endorsed by CRES so that each individual is on one line, and feel free to put the names in any order you like. Best wishes, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 17:05, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Ross.cres, I added infobox - hope useful - feel free to delete unwanted parameters and fill in the necessary. I forget the procedure but as you work for them you should be able to upload your logo to Wikimedia commons so it can be used in the infobox if you wish. Chidgk1 (talk) 16:44, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Good idea :) Instructions for uploading files are here: Wikipedia:Uploading images . Since the logo would be a "fair use" image, it would need to be uploaded to the English Wikipedia rather than to Wikimedia Commons. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 22:33, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Clayoquot Yes normally that would be the only option. But as Ross.cres works for CRES another option would be to give permission via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimedia_OTRS_release_generator . For articles which are likely to be translated into several languages I think the second option is best - but for this article I advise Ross.cres to check with his colleagues before deciding - as I am not a copyright or logo expert. Chidgk1 (talk) 06:18, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

If an organization uses that OTRS release generator for their logo, they will release their logo under a Creative Commons license for anyone to modify and re-use anywhere. Practically no organization wants to do that, unless they're feeling exceedingly generous ;) Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 18:58, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello,

I see from the website that CRES is against a Carbon tax but I am curious - does the organisation have a view about Carbon emission trading and if so is it written on the website or elsewhere?

P.S. I am not American. Chidgk1 (talk) 17:00, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Yes, we are proponents of voluntary carbon markets (sometimes referred to as emissions trading), emphasis on "voluntary". Some of the really difficult sectors to decarbonize, like heavy industry / cement and steel manufacturing don't yet have the necessary technology required to operate on renewable energy, at least not yet in an economically feasible way. Voluntary carbon markets allow those industries to set and meet sustainability goals, lower the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and still operate with existing available technology. Probably our most visible support for these markets is in the work we've done around the Growing Climate Solutions Act, which is a bill we've long championed for allowing farmers and ranchers to better participate in these voluntary exchanges, and earn money when they adopt more sustainable farming practices. We ran an ad campaign recently thanking all of the original Senate cosponsors of that bill - at growingclimatesolutions.com Sen. Hyde-Smith published our press release discussing our support on her website: https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/cres-growing-climate-solutions-act-free-market-win-farmers-businesses-climate (Not sure it's relevant but we do not support mandatory participation. We know that these work best when the market is allowed to operate freely, not manipulated by policy makers.) Happy to answer your question. Thanks for asking. Ross.cres (talk) 12:04, 28 June 2021 (UTC)