Welcome to readers from New York Times Dot Earth!

Welcome to readers from the New York Times Dot Earth blog!  Dot Earth — a widely read energy and environment blog run by the well-respected reporter and author Andrew Revkin – just featured a post about our efforts on the RE-ENERGYSE energy education proposal, particularly our letter to Congress including over 100 student governments, representing more than one million American students.

For first-time visitors to Americans for Energy Leadership, we’re a new project led by young people to foster the next generation of energy innovators and advance U.S. leadership in the global clean energy sector.   Founded at Stanford University in 2009, we’re now headquartered in Washington, DC, working to advance a large-scale federal program for clean energy science and engineering education, with RE-ENERGYSE as a first step.   More broadly, we’re empowering young leaders through our Policy Fellowship Program to develop and advance a new national energy innovation agenda capable of bridging the partisan divide and generating broad public support.

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