2020 Conventions: on Environment
Socialist Party:
Support family farms that treat livestock humanely
The Socialist Party supports a system of ecologically based, sustainable, organic agriculture based on family farms and farming cooperatives that guarantee full workers' rights, uphold all environmental and safety standards, and treat their live-stock
in a humane manner. We support the creation of socially owned enterprises in the areas of transportation, storage, and processing of agricultural goods, controlled by boards comprised of farmers, farm workers, and community members.
The Socialist Party recognizes the rights of animals to live free from unnecessary pain and suffering. We support the spaying and neutering of pets to prevent the massive extermination resulting from overpopulation. We oppose entertainment
that causes pain to animals. We call for the banning of the fur trade. We call for a ban on animal experimentation for product development, and for an oversight board to examine and limit the use of animals in scientific and medical research.
Source: Socialist Party Platform at 2020-2021 PSL Convention
Aug 3, 2020
Socialist Party:
Support use of recycled materials in public projects
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 support large-scale environmental restoration efforts.
Source: Socialist Party Platform at 2020-2021 PSL Convention
Aug 3, 2020
Green Party:
Polluters should have burden of proof of safe practices
- Restore state health, safety, and consumer protection laws by striking federal preemptions that weaken state law.
- Preserve and expand product-labeling requirements.
- Repeal the misnamed Bankruptcy Abuse
Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.
- Establish new independent government consumer advocacy agencies to protect the interests of consumers and restore the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs.
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Uphold the precautionary principle, requiring polluters to bear the burden of proof in demonstrating the safety of their practices.
- Expand the application of the precautionary principle from chemicals and health
to land use, waste, energy, food policy and local economic development.
- Support, enforce and strengthen the National Environmental Policy Act.
Source: Green Party Platform at 2020 Green National Convention
Jul 9, 2020
Green Party:
Strengthen Endangered Species & Clean Water Act
Water is essential to all forms of life. The Green Party calls for an international declaration that water belongs to the Earth and all of its species. Water is a basic human right! The U.S. Government must lead the way in declaring
water a fundamental human right and prevent efforts to privatize, export, and sell for profit a substance that is essential to all life.The Green Party supports a strengthened and enforceable Endangered Species Act.
We support reintroducing native species to areas from which they have been eradicated, eliminating predator control on public lands, and reintroducing native predators where they would contribute to a viable ecosystem.
We should educate ourselves about animal behaviors to overcome our culture's irrational fear of wildlife, and learn techniques of co-existence with other species.
Source: Green Party Platform at 2020 Green National Convention
Jul 9, 2020
Green Party:
Shut down waste incinerators; phase out landfills
Shut down existing waste incinerators, impose a moratorium on new waste incinerators, and phase out landfills. For all possible waste streams, we support the following strategies (in order of priority) as alternatives to incineration and landfills:
(a) toxics use reduction; (b) source reduction, reuse, clean recycling or composting /digestion; or (c) neutralization, sterilization or detoxification methods where applicable.
Source: Green Party Platform at 2020 Green National Convention
Jul 9, 2020
Constitution Party:
Repeal wetlands protection & Endangered Species Act
We call for repeal of federal wetlands legislation and the federal Endangered Species Act. We oppose any attempt to designate private or public property as United Nations World Heritage sites or Biosphere reserves. We call for an end to United
States participation in UN programs such as UNESCO, Man and the Biosphere, and the UN Council on Sustainable Development. We oppose environmental treaties and conventions such as the Biodiversity Treaty, the Convention on Climate Control, and Agenda 21.
Source: Constitution Party Platform at 2020 Convention
May 2, 2020
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