Candidate Questions - Environmental Issues
Let’s get organized before the next presidential candidates come to town! It’s hard to know what questions to ask, but here is a list that we have created. If you have additional questions you think should be asked, please contact our Office Manager, Amber Bordolo and we will add to this list.
If you attend a candidate’s event, print off this list (see the download link below) and have it handy in case you have an opportunity to ask questions. Listen carefully to the answers on the topics below. Take notes if you can, and report back to us in the Blog Comments below.
These are also good questions that should be addressed to your State legislatures when they hold legislative sessions or campaign for re-election.
1. Will you support the only current proposal that addresses the climate crisis, the Green New Deal?
2. Are you aware that the EPA had the lowest number of environmental fines in 2018 in decades? What will you do about the EPA’s substandard implementation of their own regulations?
3. Do you support protecting National Parks from drilling and exploration/extractive industries?
4. What is your plan to address this administration’s rollbacks on environmental protections on clean air and water, pollution and the use of clean energy?
5. What is your plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing our use of renewable energy?
6. What is your position on our country’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, and would you continue our planned withdrawal from that commitment?
7. Currently, corporate interests are prioritized over public health risks. What specifically will you do to change that?
8. What is your plan to invest in renewable energy and what is your timeline for doing so?
9. Are you in favor of carbon and other user taxes to address business’s negative environmental impacts?
10. Are you in favor of enforcing stricter federal regulations on companies who are out of compliance with environmental (EPA) regulations, regardless of their containment area?
11. Would you extend the current rebates on solar which are set to gradually fade starting in 2020?
Our Environmental Forum suggests the following questions for our Illinois and Iowa State legislators:
1. What are your specific plans to reduce our state’s carbon footprint, and what are your target dates and measurement tools?
2. Would you support implementing the current laws and standards of the EPA for each industry/company operating in the State?
3. Is there a state target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and, if so, what are the timelines?
4. Currently, corporate interests are prioritized over public health risks. What specifically will you do to change that?
5. What is your plan to invest in renewable energy, and what is your timeline?
6. Are you in favor of carbon and other user taxes to address business’s negative environmental impacts?
7. Are you in favor of enforcing stricter federal regulations for companies who are out of compliance with environmental (EPA) regulations, regardless of their containment area?
If you attend a candidate’s event, print off this list (see the download link below) and have it handy in case you have an opportunity to ask questions. Listen carefully to the answers on the topics below. Take notes if you can, and report back to us in the Blog Comments below.
These are also good questions that should be addressed to your State legislatures when they hold legislative sessions or campaign for re-election.
1. Will you support the only current proposal that addresses the climate crisis, the Green New Deal?
2. Are you aware that the EPA had the lowest number of environmental fines in 2018 in decades? What will you do about the EPA’s substandard implementation of their own regulations?
3. Do you support protecting National Parks from drilling and exploration/extractive industries?
4. What is your plan to address this administration’s rollbacks on environmental protections on clean air and water, pollution and the use of clean energy?
5. What is your plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing our use of renewable energy?
6. What is your position on our country’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, and would you continue our planned withdrawal from that commitment?
7. Currently, corporate interests are prioritized over public health risks. What specifically will you do to change that?
8. What is your plan to invest in renewable energy and what is your timeline for doing so?
9. Are you in favor of carbon and other user taxes to address business’s negative environmental impacts?
10. Are you in favor of enforcing stricter federal regulations on companies who are out of compliance with environmental (EPA) regulations, regardless of their containment area?
11. Would you extend the current rebates on solar which are set to gradually fade starting in 2020?
Our Environmental Forum suggests the following questions for our Illinois and Iowa State legislators:
1. What are your specific plans to reduce our state’s carbon footprint, and what are your target dates and measurement tools?
2. Would you support implementing the current laws and standards of the EPA for each industry/company operating in the State?
3. Is there a state target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and, if so, what are the timelines?
4. Currently, corporate interests are prioritized over public health risks. What specifically will you do to change that?
5. What is your plan to invest in renewable energy, and what is your timeline?
6. Are you in favor of carbon and other user taxes to address business’s negative environmental impacts?
7. Are you in favor of enforcing stricter federal regulations for companies who are out of compliance with environmental (EPA) regulations, regardless of their containment area?
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