Buffy’s environment and energy platform
I am excited to share my Environment and Energy Platform! We put together this platform with feedback from local environment and energy leaders, policy experts, and environmental justice advocates. It lays out my plan for how to continue California’s leadership on fighting climate change, seeking environmental justice, and championing clean energy.
We must protect our environment for future generations, and I’m proud that California is leading the nation — and the world — on combating climate change, making our economy cleaner, and reversing the destructive impacts of people-made pollution in our communities. But we still have much more work to do. We are increasingly witnessing the consequences of climate change everyday; and we know that those impacts and the burdens of air pollution settle predominantly in low-income communities, and in communities of color. As if the challenges we already faced weren’t enough, the Trump Administration has posed additional significant threats to our environment and public health and we must do everything we can to stop his profit-driven, science-denying agenda.
In order to live up to our progressive values, we must:
1) Step up California’s leadership role on climate change
2) Infuse every policy and program with environmental justice priorities
3) Fight back against Trump’s dangerous deregulatory agenda
This means focusing our development on transit-oriented housing that cuts down on car pollution; equipping people with the tools they need to succeed in clean energy jobs; holding big polluters and industry accountable to local and state air quality laws; expanding children’s access to quality healthcare to address our public health crisis; and ensuring that all community members – from our student to homeless populations – have access to safe and clean water as we experience more frequent droughts.
To get this work done, we’re going to need to build strong coalitions and find creative solutions to achieve a cleaner, more equitable economy. I will leverage my relationships on the local, state and national level to do just this. I will insist that all our reforms include locally-focused mechanisms for equity in my district, even as we consider statewide and global goals. We can and should prove through our work in California that environmental progress need not come at the expense of justice or economic growth; rather, our environmental and energy reforms can protect and champion our communities, our environment, and our economy, both here at home and around the world.
As your Assemblywoman, here’s what I will fight for —
Continue reading here: https://medium.com/…/my-environment-energy-platform-e830736…
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Buffy Wicks for Assembly 2024. FPPC #1456909