As gretalomoran explores, there is SO much the next president can do to lay the groundwork for a liveable future. CCNow
“The potential for executive action to jumpstart the transition that we need — to reorient our democracy for democratic engagement and redress historic inequities — is huge,” said Adrien Salazar, a senior campaign strategist with progressive think tank Dēmos.
For a Green New Deal to really serve its intended purpose — of transitioning not only to net-zero emissions, but to a more just and equal society — this will need to change. “We have to recognize that a federal Green New Deal without local climate input, without the activism and work of black, indigenous, and people of color communities at the table, won’t be able to do the work of a just transition,” said Tamara Toles O'Laughlin, the North America director of 350.org.
. This is one of the executive orders that Dēmos, alongside partner organizations, is proposing in a forthcoming list of executive actions addressing environmental justice.,” which would take into account multiple and interacting ecological and health hazards when evaluating a decision that impacts communities, like a proposed infrastructure project. The president could establish these right away via an executive order, requiring them to be a part of all EPA decisions.
come from fossil fuel extraction on public land. There is an opportunity to immediately slow these emissions by stopping new leases for drilling on public land and offshore. “It is something that the next president can do unilaterally,” said Leah Stokes, an energy policy expert and assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Beyond this, hydraulic fracking could be banned on public land. “It’s simple.
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