2020 Green Party Challenger for President

End nuclear power, offshore drilling, & fracking

End the use of nuclear power. Nuclear energy is massively polluting, dangerous, financially risky, expensive and slow to implement.

Our money is better spent on wind, solar, geothermal, conservation and small-scale hydroelectric.

The Green Party stands for the enactment of bans on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and oil on the local, state and federal level and stands for bans on the disposal of wastes created by the fracking industry.

Protect 40% of the world’s oceans as marine preserves, especially near shore coastal habitats.

Ban offshore oil drilling.

Ban the siting of liquefied natural gas facilities off the U.S. coast.

Ban ocean transportation of nuclear and toxic waste.

Support the ban on international commercial whaling.

Ban drift-net fishing and long-line fishing and phase out factory trawling.

Support the Law of the Sea Treaty that establishes the global sharing of ocean resources.

Source: Green Party Platform adopted by 2020 presidential hopeful , Jul 12, 2020

Free mass transit; reduce energy use 50%

The Green Party supports a transportation policy that emphasizes the use of mass transit and alternatives to the automobile and truck for transport. We call for major public investment in mass transportation, so that such systems are cheap or free to the public and are safe, accessible, and easily understandable to first-time users. We need ecologically sound forms of transportation that minimize pollution and maximize efficiency.

Adopt energy efficiency standards that reduce energy demand economy-wide by 50% over the next 20–30 years. The U.S. can make massive reductions in its energy use through a combination of conservation and efficiency measures. We don’t actually need any additional power. Instead, we can and should reduce our consumption of power. Adopt a national zero waste policy. The less we consume and throw away, the less we will need to produce and replace.Source: Green Party Platform adopted by 2020 presidential hopeful , Jul 12, 2020

100% Clean Energy by 2030, rebuild manufacturing

Our program will get the United States to 100% greenhouse gas reductions and clean renewable energy by 2030. Our campaign is demanding an immediate nationwide ban on fracking and all new fossil fuel infrastructure. In order to get to 100% clean energy, we must convert all sectors of production to ecologically sustainable technologies. We will rebuild manufacturing in the United States on the basis of zero-waste clean technologies.Source: Declaration of Candidacy for the Green Party Nomination , May 28, 2019

Socialize Big Oil; reinvest in renewables

Socialize Big Oil and Gas: ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, Shell, Koch Industries, and the rest will never reinvest their fossil fuel earnings in renewables instead of more oil and gas.

100% clean energy means electrified transportation, manufacturing, and heat pumps for buildings. A rapid transition to clean power requires public power for lower costs and effective planning without obstruction by incumbent generators and distributors.Source: 2020 Presidential Campaign website HowieHawkins.us , May 19, 2019

I’m the original Green New Dealer, since 2010

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins wants to set the record straight. “A lot of people think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thought up the Green New Deal,” he told me. “But I’m the original Green New Dealer.”

Hawkins says he was the first American political candidate to run on the promise of a Green New Deal. During his run for NY governor in 2010, he proposed a plan to fight climate change “with the same urgency, speed, and commitment of resources that our country demonstrated in converting to war production for the mobilization for World War II.” To reduce carbon emissions to net zero over ten years, Hawkins’s plan would “devote resources to and create jobs in renewable energy, public transit and organic agriculture.” And those resources would come from progressive tax reform.

Hawkins thinks the Green New Deal is being unfairly co-opted. But he’s happy that it’s become mainstream, because “it’s our opportunity to explain how the Democratic establishment chopped away the pieces,” he said.Source: The New Republic magazine on 2020 Presidential hopefuls , Feb 22, 2019

Solar-Based Renewable Energy

Solar-Based Renewable Energy. Shut down nuclear power. Phase out fossil fuels.Source: 2006 Senate campaign website, hawkinsforsenate.org, “Issues” , Jun 30, 2006

More mass transportation, and fuel cell cars

Traffic congestion cannot be dealt with without slowing population growth or long-term planning on organizing our cities better and establishing mass transportation, getting fuel cell going in cars and reducing the size of cars.Source: 2006 Senate campaign website, hawkinsforsenate.org, “Issues” , Jun 30, 2006

Source: Howie Hawkins on Energy & Oil