reporter: republicans say president obama is catering to a base that claims that the keystone pipeline would negatively affect climate change. a state department study claims that the pipeline would create more than $42,000 direct and indirect jobs while house lawmakers passed a bill approving the pipeline without the president s signature and efforts in the senate have stalled. the new loan program backs the president s push on climate change which he addressed last month. what we are doing is not enough. that s why a couple of weeks ago america proposed new standards to limit the amount of harmful carbon pollution that power plants can dump into the air. reporter: there are five areas the government would consider supporting. fist is advanced grid immigration and storage. another is drop in bio fuels with the goal of meeting existing fuel quality specifications. waste energy projects, projects that would enhance existing hydroelectric facilities and lastly, efficiency improveme
Technologies and the efficiency improvements, electric vehicles, and sustainable and organic agriculture and sustainable forestry and the other ways of changing our lives for the better that can sharply diminish the amount of global warming pollution that we are putting up there. and secretary clinton is exactly right, that we can create good jobs in the process, jobs that can be outsourced. [ cheers and applause ] she is also right that, either china or germany or some other country other than the u.s. could become the renewable energy superpower of this new century. one day last december, germany, which is much higher in latitude than the u.s. and pretty cloudy at that, one day they got 87% of all their electricity from wind and solar and renewable energy.