NY-Gov: Howie Hawkins (G) Calls for Rapid Clean Energy Transition

Via Green Party Watch:

From New York Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins:

• Make New York State a Leader in the Fight to Drastically Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Create “Climate Jobs” – in both the public and private sectors
• Scale Up Renewable Energy — 100% by 2020
• No to Hydrofracking, Nuclear Power, and “Clean Coal”

The Green Party of New York State is committed to a rapid Clean Energy Transition that will create hundreds of thousands of good jobs, stimulate economic recovery, advance social justice, and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions in a decade. In 1931, what became the federal New Deal was initiated in New York State by Governor Roosevelt, Francis Perkins, and Harry Hopkins with a public jobs program as the Great Depression deepened. It is now time for New York State to again lead the nation in the face of persistent high unemployment and pending climate catastrophe, this time with a Green New Deal in which a Clean Energy Transition is the centerpiece