Stop New Fossil Fuel and Other Dirty Energy Infrastructure

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Platform - Green Party US
  Section III. Ecological Sustainability
        A. Climate Change
              Declare a Climate Emergency

The key policies and programs in this program should include the following:

Stop New Fossil Fuel and Other Dirty Energy Infrastructure

Greens call for a halt to all new fossil fuel infrastructure (fracking, oil and gas pipelines, gas-fired power plants).

Existing infrastructure is more than sufficient to deliver fossil fuels during the transition as they are phased out.

Greens also call for a halt to so-called "low carbon" dirty energy industries and for their rapid phase-out, including nuclear power; fossil fuel carbon capture and sequestration; waste incinerators; large-scale biofuels such as factory farm biogas, landfill gas, and wood pellets; hydrogen from fossil fuels; large-scale ecosystem-altering hydropower; and market-based accounting systems like carbon offsets.

Clean energy includes solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, wave, and small-scale hydro.