After losing Georgia’s governorship a second time to the state’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, Democrat Stacey Abrams has found a new job working for a green energy group that aims to eliminate gas stoves.
Rewiring America, a self-professed “electrification nonprofit” based in Washington, is leading the charge to convert American homes, businesses, and communities to run solely on electric energy.
On March 14, the group announced that Abrams would be joining the organization as senior counsel, a role in which she will help to launch a national awareness campaign promoting the transition to electric energy.
“Growing up on the Gulf Coast, not far from a significant concentration of the petrochemical industry, I’ve seen the environmental and health injustices that visit communities isolated from political power and economic opportunity,” Abrams said in a statement. “We are at an inflection point, where families in the South and across the country live too close to the economic edge, and every dollar saved now changes their future. But few understand how much money they can save with a little help to upgrade their homes and vehicles….