- Clean up toxic waste sites. Make the polluters pay.
- Reduce air pollution by encouraging alternative fueled “clean” cars
and improved mass transit. Convert the state’s vehicles and buses to
clean fuels.
- Shut down the Oyster Creek and Salem nuclear power plants. Replace
them with renewable energy sources.
- Repeal the “Fast Track” development law. Stop the loss of farmlands
and forests and prevent inappropriate development.
- Address environmental justice problems
- Tax Plastic Shopping Bags, as done in Ireland with great success.
- Bring back reusable containers.
- Revive freight rail traffic in order to cut truck traffic volume.
- More mass transit.
- No more public money for airports or new roads.
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Protect Farmland
& Increase Open Space
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Close Oyster
Creek Nuclear Plant
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Action Now
to Stop Global Warming
Green Party of the United States Platform:
(Waste Management)
Waste management is a critical challenge to the survival of the modern
world. Real reductions in per capita consumption of materials, and
significant increases in the efficiency with which materials are used, is a
problem that must be faced sooner rather than later. We support RECYCLING at
every level of the economy. We endorse SOURCE REDUCTION and municipal
programs that particularly focus on household recycling.
We oppose shipping of toxic wastes across national borders, and the
SHIPMENT OF TOXIC/HAZARDOUS OR RADIOACTIVE WASTES, without regulation,
across any political borders.
Environmental justice demands that poor communities, minority and
under-represented communities not bear an unfair burden when it comes to
disposal of toxic wastes.
The environmental problems associated with the personal computer and
electronics industry are growing worse. The Green Party believes these
environmental issues must be identified and addressed
(Global Warming)
The Green Party urges the U.S. Congress to act immediately to address the
critical global warming and climate change issues. When the U.S. Senate
voted 95-0 to oppose any global warming treaty that does not also bind
developing countries to specific, if smaller, emissions reductions in the
future, which many industrializing countries oppose, it put a roadblock in
the way of progress by all nations.
Avoiding loopholes is now even more important than an ambitious target.
Unless a very ambitious target is set, which now seems unlikely, allowing
sinks and trading within the protocol will create such loopholes that no
real reductions will occur. Trading and sinks must be left until there is
much more scientific precision about how they are measured.
(Natural Resource Management)
Greens believe that effective land and resource management practices must
be founded on stewardship, such as incorporated in a “land ethic” as
articulated by Aldo Leopold.
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