She will work to decarbonize our electric sector by restoring the Clean Power Plan to put limits on carbon pollution emitted from our power plants. That includes reinstating the methane pollution rule to limit existing oil and gas projects from releasing harmful gases that poison our air. We can't allow big corporations to mortgage our planet's future by continuing to pump dangerous amounts of pollution into our communities - especially communities of color and low-income communities that are hardest hit.Įlizabeth will restore the Obama-era environmental protections that safeguard the air we breathe and the water we drink. Clean Air & WaterĬlean air and water are vital to our health and welfare and to our economy. Read more about some of Elizabeth’s plans to make good on her promise of a Green New Deal below. We must meet the urgency of the moment - with a Green New Deal to transform our economy and save our planet. When it comes to climate change, our very existence is at stake. That’s why Elizabeth has woven Green New Deal policies throughout her plans, and that’s why she’ll use all the levers of government to defeat the climate crisis.Īnd all told, independent economists have estimated that Elizabeth’s plans to address the climate crisis will inject over $10 trillion dollars into our economy and create over 10 million new jobs. To really bend the curve on climate, we’ll need sustained big, structural change across a range of industries and sectors. But we won’t meet our emissions goals with a one-time, one-size-fits-all approach. We must meet the urgency of the moment, and a comprehensive approach to addressing climate change would be a top priority in a Warren administration.
Creating solutions that are just and sustainable for all Americans. Crafting international economic policies that encourage countries around the world to reduce emissions. Conserving our public lands and making them part of the climate solution. Encouraging our farmers to adopt climate-friendly sustainable agriculture practices. Setting aggressive sector-specific standards to rapidly decarbonize across every sector of our economy. That means investing in sustainable, resilient infrastructure to meet the energy demands of the 21st century. Like the challenges America has faced before, the climate crisis is also an opportunity: to create good, union, American jobs in clean and renewable energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing and to directly confront the racial and economic inequality embedded in our fossil fuel economy. We have a moral responsibility to act-now. The consequences of climate change are severe, and they are already affecting places like Burlington, Iowa.
It provides the framework for an ambitious effort to transform our economy and save our planet. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal resolution, which commits the United States to a ten-year mobilization to achieve domestic net-zero emissions by 2030. Elizabeth is proud to be an original cosponsor of Senator Ed Markey and Rep. We need a Green New Deal - and we need it now. We need a government that makes different choices - a government that will stop handing out enormous tax giveaways to big oil companies, and stop refusing to invest in our children’s and grandchildren’s futures. We already see its effects everyday - record floods, terrifying wildfires, devastating hurricanes - in events that cost lives and cause billions of dollars in damage, and that disproportionately impact our most vulnerable communities.īut right now, Washington refuses to lift a finger without permission from the fossil fuel industry. The world’s leading experts have long known that climate change is man-made, and we are running out of time. This plan was originally released during Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign.
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