President Obama is heading to Las Vegas in August to speak at the eighth annual National Clean Energy Summit.
The news was announced Saturday morning by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, R-Nev., in a video in which he said, “President Obama will really be the touchstone of how good [the summit] will be.”
“President Obama’s record on clean energy and climate stands above all others,” Reid said in a press release on the National Clean Energy Summit website. “His administration has made the largest investment in clean energy in American history and there is no place better than Nevada to discuss how we will continue this progress.”
The president is scheduled to speak on Aug. 24, and will be among many other clean energy “visionaries,” including Reid and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, who is a former nuclear physicist. Moniz helped to negotiate the administration’s nuclear deal with Iran.
Past speakers include former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden.
According to the press release, the summit will “bring together clean energy advocates, business leaders, students, public officials and decision makers to discuss solutions for the advancement of the clean energy economy.”
The summit is sponsored by Reid, along with liberal think tank Center for American Progress, Clean Energy Project Inc., MGM Resorts and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
This would make the second trip to Las Vegas in a year for Obama. In November of 2014, he traveled to “Sin City” to talk about immigration, following an announcement he made on executive action to protect millions of people in the United States illegally from deportation.
