A New Energy Future
• Build support for and pass a Renewable Portfolio Standard
• Build support for and pass oil savings/CAFE legislation
• Develop and pass energy-efficiency legislation
Global Warming Solutions
• Build support for legislation introduced by Rep. Waxman (Calif.) and Sens. Sanders (Vt.) and Boxer (Calif.) to reduce global warming pollution by 15 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050.
Our Rivers, Lakes and Streams
• Protect rivers, lakes and other waterways by stopping Bush administration policies that exclude waters from the Clean Water Act.
• Build support for and pass legislation to ensure all U.S. waters remain protected by the Clean Water Act.
• Defend existing water pollution standards by blocking efforts to increase pollution, in particular sewage and pesticide pollution, and building support to fully fund U.S. EPA’s water program, including the agency’s enforcement programs.
Preservation
• Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge against oil and gas exploration and drilling.
• Protect roadless areas in the National Forests from logging, mining, and development.
• Prevent the passage of any legislation in the Senate that weakens, undermines, or rolls back the Endangered Species Act.
• Protect sensitive public lands in the West from oil and gas exploration and drilling.
• Promote and protect the units and monuments that make up the National Landscape Conservation System.
Ocean Conservation
• Protect our beaches from offshore drilling by defending the 25-year-old moratorium on expanding areas for offshore oil and gas exploration and drilling.
•Implement strong, clear rules (National Standard 1) for fishing with conservation minded catch limits based on recommendations of independent scientists to ensure that there is no overfishing, accountability measures when catch limits are exceeded, and an environmental review process.
•Establish a number of new marine sanctuaries where special ocean ecosystems and their fish and marine mammals are protected against the harmful impacts of human exploitation.
Clean Air
• Defeat Congressional attempts to weaken the Clean Air Act’s framework or core programs.
• Convince the Bush administration to finalize a strong rule to clean up diesel trains and ships.
• Defeat the Bush administration’s 2003 NSR rule and 2005 mercury rule through litigation.
Healthy Communities
• Pass chemical security legislation that replaces dangerous toxic chemicals with safer alternatives and allows states to establish stronger security protections.
• Protect the public’s right-to-know about toxic pollution in communities and toxics in consumer products, and stop attempts to preempt state toxic disclosure laws.
• Pass legislation to ban harmful long-lived toxics identified for elimination by the international community, and allow states to establish stronger health protections against these toxics.
• Reinstate legislation to make polluters pay to clean up Superfund sites to a level that protects public health, and defend the Superfund from rollbacks that would let polluters off the hook.
• Develop and implement a strategy to pass legislation that will reform federal chemical policy by placing public health protections above industry profits.
