Globally, Big Oil has had its way with the world. Wars are fought for its sake. Taxpayer’s money is shoveled into their pockets. Ground water is contaminated with their waste. Children, women and men sicken and die. Indigenous cultures are decimated. Wildlife dies. Life sustaining forests and watersheds are laid waste.
The world needs all of this to stop.
Jay Inslee plans to announce his intentions and policy initiatives to radically change this scenario this morning from the Florida Everglades where a Florida court has ruled to allow oil exploration in the River of Grass which supplies fresh drinking water for millions of Floridians.
If elected, Inslee says, he will cut billions in fossil fuel subsidies, ban new drilling on public lands and in offshore waters, phase out fracking for natural gas, end the use of coal and ban oil exports.
He also proposes to create a climate pollution fee, institute an environmental justice office within the Department of Justice in order to prosecute polluters, and adopt a “climate test” for new infrastructure projects.
“Even as fossil fuel corporations harm our communities and endanger our future, they continue to benefit from billions in US government subsidies and giveaways,” the plan says. “They are privatizing their rising profits even as they impose massive costs on society.”
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