ENVIRONMENT
The Alliance Party recognizes the duty of the government to enact a comprehensive Green New Deal to reverse current trends and create 10 million new public and private industry green jobs.
The United States generates four times the global average of carbon per capita, making us the worst global offender. Man-made changes in our climate have created a existential threat to the foundation of security and prosperity of every nation.
Environment
Solutions and Key Components
▶ Transform to a Low-Carbon Economy
• Lead a just transition away from harmful energy production practices and invest in clean and renewable energy sources.
• Increase government standards on vehicle emissions and building energy use standards.
• Put a generation to work through the creation of new public and private green industry jobs by investing in green projects and technologies.
▶ Protect Our Natural Resources
• Enhance national standards for clean air and water and ban single-use plastics.
• Invest in applied research to rid our oceans and waterways of plastics and toxins, and technologies to extract carbon dioxide and methane from our atmosphere.
• Reforest and restore millions of acres of public land and wetlands.
• Clean up brownfields and all hazardous sites.
Support sustainable agricultural, soil management, and fishing practices.
▶ Strengthen Urban and Rural Sustainability and Resistance
• Establish a national fund for urban and rural resilience that manages public resources in ways that promotes social equity and community welfare.
• Invest in national lead pipe replacement and infrastructure upgrades to guarantee access to safe and affordable drinking water.
• Expand public green space, recreational land, and recreational waters.
• Modernize urban mobility and mass transit infrastructure and technologies.
• Promote local and community organic farming and phase our large agribusiness subsidies.