New details on Inslee’s platform to end U.S. dependence on fossil fuels

Washington state governor and presidential candidate, Jay Inslee, announced the final part of his platform to fight climate change, which takes aim at oil, gas and coal.

The 30-page, 16-point “Freedom from Fossil Fuels” plan proposes new bans: no more hydraulic fracturing, no more exports of oil, coal and liquid natural gas, and no new leases on public land for fossil fuel extraction.

Inslee also announced he would end tax benefits for oil, gas and coal companies.

“We should not be subsidizing the industry that’s endangering our health. And that’s got to stop right now,” he said, speaking Monday in Florida at Everglades National Park.

The plan rejects infrastructure projects that support fossil fuels, such as new pipelines, power plants and export terminals, and would impose new fees on greenhouse gas emitters.

“Our very survival depends on our ability to transition off of fossil fuels,” Inslee said. “Our very ability to raise our children in a healthy environment depends on breaking the chain of enslavement of our democracy to the fossil fuel industry.”

It’s the forth pillar of Inslee’s platform, which seeks to transition the United States to 100% clean energy, and cut climate pollution in half by the year 2030.