Clean coal Senator Kerry? It doesn’t exist.
Still suffering from those nuclear too-cheap-to-meter fantasies, dear Senator? Get over it. It is still the wrong energy source. It always be.
Just pass a modest carbon tax that ratchets up over time and watch a billion good ideas spring forth. We don’t need your top-down, Stalinistic plans. We can get it down to 350 on our own.
Just make sure to reduce the income tax (or increase tax credits) by an amount equal to that brought in by the carbon tax. Structure the tax reductions/credits such that the impact on the poor & middle class will be nil (and thereby shutting up both the whiny liberals as well as your tax-phobic buddies over on the Republican side of the aisle).
In the meantime, maybe you & your party should stop taking so much money from the old, gray power industries of yore. It might clear up your judgment.