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Environment, Energy & Transportation

 

The Environmental, Transportation, and Energy Policy of the United States of America shall have as its goal to create a future that has a vibrant, healthy Nation with energy sources and transportation systems that have little or no negative environmental impact on the planet as a whole, and that preserves healthy habitat to protect endangered and at risk species. The government shall implement actions that will reverse the trend of global climate change by large scale reduction of green house gas emissions, to include; (1) research, development and swift implementation of non-polluting and renewable energy systems such as solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal power, and (2) responsible creation of efficient and clean transportation.
 
We Call For:
 
  • Reduction of human activities that cause global climate change and ratify the Kyoto Accord;
  • Continued ban on oil drilling and exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge;
  • Taxation systems that reward industry that is environmentally clean;
  • Create a significant financial and legal deterrent to prevent industry or government entities from degrading the natural environment;
  • Monitoring and reducing factory farm contamination of our air, water and food,
  • Clean up and elimination of the Hanford site as a repository of nuclear waste;
  • Renewable energy sources for any state approval process for new power facilities;
  • New construction and industrial updates to require renewable and energy-efficient technology;
  • Preservation and restoration of historic wild salmon runs for long-tern sustainability;
  • Adoption of State and National forest policies that favor select cutting over clear cutting;
  • Federal transportation policies that create clean and safe transportation powered by renewable energy;
  • Requirement that electric utilities to produce at least 20% of their power from clean, appropriately-sited renewable resources by 2020;
  • Policy of reuse and recycling of clean fresh water at the residential, agricultural, commercial, governmental and industrial levels;