Green New Deal

Sanders views global warming as a serious problem. In 2019 he announced support for Green New Deal legislation. Bernie Sanders insists that climate change is the biggest national security threat to the United States. The government is considering auctioning off Florida coastal waters for oil & gas drilling. Bernie says there is no safe offshore drilling: “We’ve had enough disasters by now to learn that there’s no such thing as safe drilling. We cannot afford to keep putting profits for Trump’s friends in the fossil fuel industry ahead of the environment and the health of the American people.” As president, Bernie Sanders will launch the decade of the Green New Deal, a ten-year, nationwide mobilization centered around justice and equity during which climate change will be factored into virtually every area of policy, from immigration to trade to foreign policy. Sanders will reach 100 % renewable energy for electricity and transportation by no later than 2030 and complete decarbonization by 2050 at latest – consistent with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change goals – by expanding the existing federal Power Marketing Administrations to build new solar, wind energy sources. The Green New Deal tackles the twin problems of inequality and climate change at the same time, pairing renewable energy targets with ideas like universal healthcare and a federal jobs guarantee. Considering that both of those issues are squarely within Bernie’s wheelhouse. In 2017, Bernie voted against the repeal of the Stream Protection Rule, which regulated the use of mountaintop removal to stop the devastating impact of coal mining on streams, especially in the Appalachian Mountains. Bernie also opposed the 2017 Water Rights Protection Act, which would have prohibited the government from restricting water rights as a condition of using or developing public lands. The bill prohibits setting limits on water usage and would prevent most actions to help the public during a drought crisis, such as the recent one in California.
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