WASHINGTON: The Democrat running as the"climate change candidate" in the 2020 presidential election laid out a strategy on Monday for weaning the United States off fossil fuels that includes banning drilling on public lands and ending crude oil exports just as the country is poised to become the world's biggest producer.
Inslee said contrary to President Donald Trump's view that fossil fuel production is an economic driver, an aggressive shift toward clean energy would be an economic boon.Inslee's plan outlines 16 initiatives that would form his national energy policy and aim to weaken the fossil fuel industry that he says has been"driving the climate crisis.
Inslee's plan would also strengthen environmental enforcement of polluters and ban the construction of new infrastructure such as oil pipelines that would lead to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.