[GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Eco-Action plan for a Green President's first 100 days

[Green Party of California Updates]

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, May 7, 2008




Greens introduce a plan for environmental action
for a Green President's first 100 days in office

• Green Party seeks bans on mountaintop removal
and coal-fired and nuclear power plants,
introduces an aggressive plan to curb global
warming

• An environmental program for Green presidential
candidates -- and a challenge to Democrats and
Republicans


WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party's Eco-Action
Committee has announced a set of recommendations
for environmental actions for the first 100 days
of a Green presidency.

Titled "First 100 Days: Energy and Environmental
Policy" and posted online
(http://www.gp.org/committees/ecoaction/documents/First_100_Days.pdf),
the recommended executive orders and legislation
are addressed to the Green Party's national
candidates.  Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney,
Kent Mespllay, and Kat Swift are the four
contenders for the Green presidential nomination;
Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza-Curry is
seeking the vice-presidential nomination.

The Green Party of the United States will hold
its 2008 National Nominating Convention in
Chicago, Illinois, July 10-13
(http://www.greenparty2008.org).

"We're not only sending the 'First 100 Days' list
to Green candidates.  The Green Eco-Action
recommendations are a challenge to all
presidential candidates, regardless of party,
including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John
McCain -- with a plea to set aside their promises
to corporate contributors for the sake of our
children's lives and our planet's future," said
Wes Rolley, co-chair of the Eco-Action Committee.

"The Green Party's concrete proposals stand in
sharp contrast to those who would base their
election on such short term ideas as a gasoline
tax holiday, which they would have to pay for
with more borrowing from oil rich sheikdoms," Mr.
Rolley added.

The Eco-Action recommendations also provide
guidance on major environmental issues for Green
candidates for Congress and other offices.

Summary of major recommendations:

• No new coal fired-power plants; no new nuclear
power plants; reduce by 90% the mercury emissions
of coal-fired power plants by 2012; protect human
health and the environment.in the disposal of
coal-fired power plant wastes

• Ban mountaintop coal removal; ban the dumping
of mountaintop removal wastes in stream beds and
valleys

• Reduce CO2 and SO2 emissions by 80% by 2020

• Provide incentives for industry and citizens to
reduce energy use through conservation and
generate more renewable energy sources; enact a
mandatory 25% renewable energy mix in the
national grid by 2015; encourage all states to do
the same (using oil and nuclear subsidy funds);
encouraging local energy generation

• Increase Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)
standards to 60 mpg for cars and 45 mpg for light
trucks by 2012

• Set a national phosphorus standard for all US
waters that will protect steams from nutrient
growth; strengthen bacteria standards to protect
human health

• Require labeling of imported foods, foods with
growth hormones, and foods produced by Confined
Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)

• Stop export of any technology abroad for
projects that involve fossil fuel or
deforestation

• Require that all federal agencies continue
their policy of direct negotiation with Indian
tribes on a government to government basis

• Protect the rights of Environmental Justice
communities to be free from new proposals for
permits that would potentially increase their
burden of toxic contamination, and prioritize
these communities for cleanup

The Eco-Action Committee credited Earl Hatley of
Oklahoma with most of the writing of the
recommendations, with significant contributions
from Derek Iverson (California) and detailed
discussion among all committee members.


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193
• Video of Green presidential candidates
http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/presidential-videos.php
• Links to Green Presidential Candidates' web
sites
http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/index.shtml
• Green candidate database for 2007 and other
campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
• Green Party News Center
http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
• Green Party Speakers Bureau
http://www.gp.org/speakers
• Green Party ballot access page
http://www.gp.org/2008-elections
• 2008 Green National Convention: Live Green,
Vote Green
http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/index.shtml
• Media credentialing
http://www.gp.org/committees/media/kit.shtml

Green presidential candidates:
• Jesse Johnson http://www.jesse08.org
• Cynthia McKinney http://www.runcynthiarun.org
• Kent Mesplay http://www.mesplay.org
• Kat Swift http://www.voteswift.org
• Vice-presidential candidate: Sedinam Kinamo
Christin Moyowasifza-Curry
http://curry08.wetpaint.com

Green Party Eco-Action Committee
http://www.gp.org/committees/ecoaction


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