Issue Position: The Environment

Issue Position

The health of the environment is vital to our own health, prosperity, and security. In the Senate, I'll make energy and environmental policy on the basis of scientific evidence -- not lobbying by polluters.

We face an urgent environmental crisis as out-of-control pollution is fast changing the climate, destroying ecosystems, killing off species, and damaging human health.

The scientific consensus is unambiguous: if pollution from fossil fuel combustion is not controlled, the consequences will be dire.

We can meet our energy needs without destroying the environment -- but only by rapidly transitioning to clean energy sources, dramatically reducing carbon emissions, and increasing energy efficiency.

That's why I'll support a historic infrastructure plan that includes massive investments in clean energy, energy efficiency, and environmental protection.

I'll push for America to immediately re-enter the Paris Climate Accords -- and then to lead negotiation of an even more ambitious climate treaty.

I'll work to reverse the Trump Administration's rollbacks of clean air, clean water, and fuel economy standards -- and then to strengthen them.

I'll push for fast advances in sustainability -- including a rapidly phased-in ban on single-use plastics, strongly enforced treaties to protect oceans and fisheries, aggressive protection of endangered species and habitats, increased fines for spills and contamination, and stricter controls on toxic chemicals.

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