Issue Position: Environment & Disaster Preparedness

Issue Position

Provide for a refundable recycling fee of 1 cent per cigarette butt or cigar butt; cover with a can and bottle recycling program all states not covered by a can and bottle recycling program

Establish federal standards for metal recycling, including full identification of scavengers and locations from which metals have been gathered, filed under penalties of perjury, backed up by audits

Impose the ozone regulations rejected by the President
Phase out the grandfather clause in the Clean Air Act

Provide for environmental regulation of natural gas well fracturing; support passage of the FRAC Act

Strengthen protections against oil spills

Halt off-shore drilling until blow-out preventers that actualy work can be designed, tested, and required / encourage Mr. Bromwich of MMS to be a bit more sensitive to the risk of not requiring blowout preventers that actually work.

Restore Gulf-state wetlands

Strengthen Louisiana hurricane protections

Upgrade the various relevant federal programs to strip out the red tape and increase to 100% the provision of financial assistance to construct EF5-resistant tornado shelters/safe rooms in counties or parishes that have historically suffered tornados F2 or higher.

Phase-in protections for mid-America against another New Madrid earthquake

Begin sweeping the Pacific of floating plastic

Sweep the oceans of Somali pirates

Fund preservation and restoration of rain forests and coral reefs

Strengthen NPR, PBS & arts funding

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