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| Socialist Party USA: 2012-2013 National
Platform |
Environment
- We call for public
ownership and democratic control of all our
natural resources in order to conserve resources, preserve our
wilderness areas, and restore environmental quality.
- The U.S. must
immediately return to participation in international
agreements, such as the Kyoto Protocol, limiting carbon emissions, and
accept a major role in worldwide efforts to control global warming.
- We call for placing
full financial responsibility on private
companies for prevention and clean up of their own toxic wastes and for
full compensation of workers and residents adversely affected by
environmental hazards.
- We oppose policies
that target minority communities for placement of
local landfills, toxic waste disposal sites, or incinerators.
- We call for strong,
enforceable endangered species protection
that focuses on habitat-centered protection for plants and animals.
- We oppose any new
nuclear power projects and call for the rapid
phasing out of all nuclear power plants, and a ban on the export of
nuclear technology.
- We support the
recycling of glass, metals, plastic, paper, and
chemicals and the use of recycled materials for public works projects
such as roadways, parks, and playgrounds.
- We call for shutting
down waste incinerators and phasing out
landfills and especially oppose targeting minority communities for
hazardous waste disposal sites.
- We oppose open-pit
mining operations and support the reclamation of
land used by mining operations at the company’s expense.
- We support
large-scale environmental restoration efforts.
Energy
The Socialist Party
stands for
municipal ownership and control of
energy plants, in a non-profit and decentralized, but coordinated,
system that ensures the most careful use of natural resources.
- We call for the
development of alternative energy sources including
solar, geothermal, wind, hydropower, and biomass to end dependence on
fossil fuels.
- We call for a
sliding-scale index which favors low-income people, to
ensure that all people have access to utility services.
- We call for mandatory
vitrification (encapsulation) of all spent
nuclear fuel, control rods and other waste.
- We call for a ban on
all imports of nuclear materials, whether they
are vitrified or not.
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