[Lapg] Fwd: [alachuagreens] Fwd: Green EcoAction Ctte: First 100 Days of Eco Actions by a Green President (text)

[Doug Butler]

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> From: "Michael Canney" <alachuagreen at gmail.com>
> Date: May 5, 2008 8:40:33 AM PDT
> To: "GPF Energy" <gpgp-energy at googlegroups.com>
> Cc: "Alachua Greens" <alachuagreens at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [alachuagreens] Fwd: Green EcoAction Ctte: First 100 Days  
> of Eco Actions by a Green President (text)
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> First 100 Days of Eco Actions by a Green President
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Scott McLarty <scottmclarty at yahoo.com>
> Date: Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:56 AM
> Subject: Green EcoAction Ctte: First 100 Days of Eco Actions by a  
> Green President (text)
>
> Last week, Wes Rolley of the Green Party's
> EcoAction Committee sent a note to Green Party
> lists announcing a set of recommended
> environmental actions to be enacted during the
> first 100 Days of a Green Presidency.
>
> The recommendations are also meant to be sent to
> other parties' presidential candidates, on the
> remote chance that our Green presidential ticket
> won't win on Election Day 2008.
>
> Wes sent a link to the pdf page, but I copied it
> into e-mail text -- see below.  The Media
> Committee is preparing to publish it in a news
> release.
>
> Scott
> Media Committee
>
>
> *  *  *  *  *
>
>
> Introductory letter to presidential candidates:
>
> Dear Candidate,
>
> The attached document is a plan for the first 100
> days of environmental action by a truly Green
> President. It was compiled by the EcoAction
> Committee, Green Party US and is the first step
> in reclaiming political leadership for the green
> movement in the United States, a role that
> naturally belongs to the Green Party but which
> for far too long, we have declined to fulfill.
>
> You will note that the objectives are clear. We
> have done the home work to determine exactly what
> can be done by executive order and what requires
> action by Congress. In this respect, we have been
> guided by the experience of committee member Earl
> Hatley (OK), appointed by the Governor of
> Oklahoma to a statewide commission.
>
> We fervently hope that you will make the
> environment a major part of your campaign. It is
> the opinion of the EcoAction Committee that there
> is little we can do that is more important than
> addressing global warming. America has lost its
> position of providing moral leadership in the
> world. There are two reasons for this and they
> both demonstrate our uninformed arrogance: the
> war in Iraq and our lack of leadership on
> climate. This must not continue.
>
>
> *  *  *  *  *
>
>
> First 100 Days Energy and Environmental Policy
> http://www.gp.org/committees/ecoaction/documents/First_100_Days.pdf
>
> The Green Party Platform:
>
> Ecological and Energy Sustainability
>
> The human community is an element of the Earth
> community, not the other way around. All human
> endeavors are situated within the dynamics of the
> biosphere. If we wish to have sustainable
> institutions and enterprises, they must fit well
> with the processes of the Earth. The ideology of
> industrialism, in both capitalist and communist
> countries, insists that modern society lives on
> top of nature and should rightly use and despoil
> the rest of the natural world as we
> desire—because any loss of the ecosystems is
> merely an "externality" in economic thought and
> because any problems can be addressed later by a
> technological fix. We are now living through the
> painful consequences of that arrogant, ignorant
> perspective. Many of our children suffer from
> accumulations of mercury and other toxins in
> their neurological systems, environmentally
> related cancer is on the rise, and our air and
> water are increasingly polluted. Meanwhile, our
> ecosystems are being compromised by the spreading
> presence of genetically engineered organisms.
>
> Our houses and buildings, manufacturing
> processes, and industrial agriculture were all
> designed with the assumption of an endless supply
> of cheap and readily available fossil fuels.
> Pollution and despoiling the land were not part
> of the thinking. The Green Party, however, is
> optimistic about the alternatives that now exist
> and that could be encouraged through tax policy
> and the market incentives of fuel efficiency. We
> also challenge the grip of the oil, automotive,
> and automobile insurance industries that have
> managed to block or roll back progress in public
> mass transit. The gutting of subsidies for the
> railroads has meant not only fewer passenger
> routes but also the addition of thousands of
> large freight trucks on our highways, decreasing
> public safety and increasing pollution. We are
> committed to extending the greening of waste
> management by encouraging the spread of such
> practices as reduce, return, reuse, and recycle.
> We strongly oppose the recent attempts to roll
> back the federal environmental protection laws
> that safeguard our air, water, and soil.
>
>
> The Solutions:
>
> The President will implement the following plan
> within the first 100 days in office:
>
> Energy: Rule making
>
> 1. The President will instruct the EPA to place a
> moratorium on new permits for coal fired-power
> plants, and will instruct the NRC that there will
> be no new nuclear power plants in the future.
> Existing nuclear plants will be decommissioned as
> expeditiously as possible, starting with the
> oldest plants, or plants with the most consistent
> violations first.
>
> 2. The President will instruct the EPA to enact
> rules which will:
>
> a. Quickly, reduce by 90% the mercury emissions
> of coal-fired power plants by 2012.
>
> b. Make rules reducing CO2 and SO2 emissions by
> 80% by the year 2020.
>
> c. Regulate the disposal of coal-fired power
> plant wastes in a manner that will protect human
> health and the environment.
>
> 3. EPA will be instructed to impose a moratorium
> on new permits for mountain top coal removal,
> while the Administration works to ban the
> process. EPA, through rule making, will ban the
> dumping of mountain top removal wastes in stream
> beds and valleys.
>
> 4. NASA and other agency scientists will be
> encouraged to provide agency heads, and the
> President's Council on Environmental Quality with
> the new data regarding climate change and
> environmental quality issues so that the
> President may inform the public and put in place
> policies to address new findings. The National
> Renewable Energy Laboratory will be funded to
> assist with a fast paced technology development
> project for the production of renewable energy
> sources.
>
> Congressional Bills:
>
> 5. The President will send to Congress a bill
> which will end government subsidies to the
> nuclear and fossil fuel industries. These funds
> will be quickly diverted to development of mass
> transit systems on national, regional and local
> levels. In addition, the bill will create greater
> incentives for industry and citizens to reduce
> energy use through conservation and generate more
> renewable energy sources. The Bill will require
> that, on a national level, there will be a
> mandatory 25% renewable energy mix in the
> national grid by 2015. All states will be
> assisted (from oil and nuclear subsidy funds) to
> do the same; including, encouraging local
> generation as much as feasible.
>
> 6. President will send to Congress a bill to
> increase CAFÉ standards to 60 mpg for cars and 45
> mpg for light trucks by 2012.
>
> Agriculture: Rule making
>
> 1. The President will instruct the EPA to set a
> national phosphorus standard for all waters of
> the U.S. that will protect our steams from
> nutrient growth. Bacteria standards will be made
> stricter in order to protect human health. In
> states that have not set Total Maximum Daily Load
> (TMDL) standards (as required under the Clean
> Water Act since 1984), for impaired water bodies,
> the EPA will set deadlines for taking such
> action, or states will face the loss of primacy
> under the Clean Water Act.
>
> 2. The USDA will make rules requiring labels of
> imported foods, foods with growth hormones, and
> foods produced by CAFOs.
>
> Bills:
>
> 1. The President will send a bill to Congress
> which will stop export of any technology abroad
> for projects that involve fossil fuel or
> deforestation.
>
> Toxics: Executive Order
>
> 1. In order to continue the for Tribal
> governments the availability of assistance and
> funds from the federal agencies to manage
> environmental issues and natural resources on
> their lands, the President will issue an
> Executive order that continues the Order
> originally issued by President Clinton, requiring
> that all federal agencies continue their policy
> of direct negotiation with Indian tribes on a
> government to government basis.
>
> Bills:
>
> 1. The President will require Congress to
> initiate a Superfund Tax Reauthorization Act in
> order to comply with the Superfund Authorization
> and Re-authorization Act of 1986 as amended to
> the Comprehensive Environmental Response
> Compensation and Liability Act of 1980.
>
> 2. The President will send a bill to Congress
> which will codify the Environmental Justice
> Executive Order 12,898, defining and protecting
> the rights of EJ communities to be free from new
> proposals for permits that would potentially
> increase their burden of toxic contamination, and
> prioritize these communities for cleanup.
>
>
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