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Jill Stein endorsed the Green New Deal, including a ban on new fossil fuel infrastructure and a shif

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CLIMATE & ENERGY

Allocate $650 BILLION annually.

ACTION

  • Declare a climate emergency using presidential powers under the National Emergencies Act, Defense Production Act, and Stafford Act
  • Phase out nuclear power
  • End all forms of subsidies to the fossil fuel industry

MOBILIZATION

  • Implement executive actions to accelerate national + global climate initiatives. We would allocate $650 billion annually to bolster renewable energy + clean transportation technology,  
  • Create an Office of Climate Mobilization to coordinate policy changes + other needed interventions to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions + ultimately achieve climate justice

IMPACT

  • Ensure climate solutions are global in scope
  • Ensure no new nuclear energy facilities are constructed
  • Ensure a Just Transition for workers shifting from the fossil fuel and other extractive and polluting industries to alternative work of their choosing
  • Ensuring the Military transitions to green energy 

GROWTH

  • Invest in renewable energy infrastructure across the nation, including wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, battery and energy storage, and green hydrogen for limited uses where appropriate
  • Create millions of well-paid union jobs that foster economic sustainability. 

WATER

  • Address the crisis of contaminated water supplies with national efforts to remove lead, PFAS, and other toxins from our water

JUSTICE

  • Prioritize Disadvantaged and other environmental justice communities with 60% of green investments + climate justice projects
  • Establishing a Federal commission to deliver justice for residents of Cancer Alley, including recompense for all residents
  • Rescind toxic provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act: those that provide subsidies, direct payments + other forms of financial assistance to the fossil fuel industry + provisions to fast-track the Mountain Valley Pipeline

ALLOCATION

  • Fund full climate reparations to developing nations as part of a Global Green New Deal
  • Fund social housing as part of the Real Green New Deal to build at least 15 million green, union-built, publicly-owned homes over the next 10 years
  • Fund and strengthen the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior and superfund site cleanup

ENERGY

  • Invest in geothermal energy Subsidize installation of heat pumps to replace fossil fuels for heating + cooling 
  • Provide clean baseload power using responsibly sourced energy storage technologies that capture renewable energy surpluses
  • Build an electrified coast-to-coast high-speed rail and local Solutionary Rail

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

  • Expand and transform the American Climate Corps into a public agency that employs millions for ecosystem restoration, climate damage mitigation, and renewable energy development
  • Build a nationwide, publicly-owned smart electricity grid
  • Take all railroad systems into democratic public ownership, including freight, commuter, and high-speed rail
  • Take the energy industry into public ownership using a democratic federated structure, with municipal and regional utilities

DEFUNDING

  • Reduce the size and budget of the military, as hyper-militarized foreign policy and military-dependent domestic economy are major contributors to the climate emergency.
  • Establish a moratorium on funding, constructing, and operating false climate solutions including carbon capture and sequestration, carbon offsets, cap and trade, biofuels, hydrogen combustion, “renewable natural gas”, waste incineration, and other forms of geoengineering

FOSSIL FUEL

  • Ban all forms of fracking, mountaintop removal, tar sands mining, and new fossil fuel infrastructure
  • Ensure a Just Transition for workers shifting from the fossil fuel and other extractive and polluting industries to alternative work of their choosing


OFFSHORE

  • Reinstate the crude oil export ban revoked in 2015, equivalent to shutting down 42 coal plants 
  • Suspend offshore lease operations, + decrease fossil fuel imports, exports, and investments in international fossil fuel ventures.

EMISSIONS

  • Retrofit existing structures, phase out all existing gas hookups
  • Energy efficiency and conservation, requiring new buildings to demonstrate zero emissions by 2035
  • Phase out nuclear power, a dirty, dangerous, expensive, and uninsurable unneeded technology

The Green New Deal

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Declare a Climate Emergency

AGRICULTURE + FOOD SYSTEMS

IMPROVE

  • Increase investments in urban food systems to increase access to nutritious foods while also fostering local and regional circular agro-economies
  • Support diversified green manufacturing in rural towns based on biodegradable agricultural feedstocks
  • Support the use of natural systems to absorb carbon
  • Ensure justice for Black farmers


PROVIDE

  • Mandate living wages + fair labor standards for farmworkers + other food workers
  • Ensure parity pricing and supply management programs that guarantee working farmers a decent income above production costs
  • Socialize big agribusiness + dismantle the corporate oligopolies that control the farm input industry (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, machinery) and the food and fiber processing industry into cooperatives and public enterprises democratically owned by and serving consumers and working farm

PHASE OUT

  • Ban pesticides, herbicides, neonicotinoids, and all other known carcinogens or neurotoxins from public use
  • Rapidly phase out the use of biocides, chemical fertilizers and corporate farms
  • Phase out plastics as much as possible, starting with single-use plastics

TRANSITION

  • Provide technical and financial assistance for regenerative organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry
  • Democratize food production*
  • Support land reform and a new homesteading program to give new farmers access to land and farming resources

PROTECT

  • Codify Rights of Nature
  • Protect public lands, water supplies, biodiversity, parks and green spaces
  • Use the Precautionary Principle to fully investigate all new products, substances, and technologies before widespread introduction

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