Do you support a moratorium on petrochemical buildout and expansion in Louisiana's industrial corridor?
Yes
No
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I support petrochemical companies coming into communities, complying with state and federal regulatory laws, and executing community benefits agreements. There needs to be greater scrutiny on plants entering the community. I do not support a sweeping moratorium on new facilities, rather stricter scrutiny and community decision-making power
I believe human caused climate change is real, yes it is an existential threat to the survival of mankind on this planet, yes we need urgent and drastic action, and yes I support the Green New Deal.
Nowhere in the U.S. has already felt the devastating impacts of climate change more so than Louisiana, especially our coastal communities including my hometown of New Orleans.
Coastal wetlands and barrier islands are a crucial part of Louisiana's natural storm protection system and thanks to rising seas and more powerful storms, decades of oil and gas activity, and other causes, Louisiana currently loses a football field of wetlands every hour. Moreover, Climate change threatens to undermine the massive efforts underway in Louisiana to restore Louisiana’s coast. As a state legislator, I authored legislation to establish the Louisiana Climate Change Policy Commission, legislation to provide tax credits for individual energy efficient improvements, and authored legislation to require the construction of state buildings to include energy efficient measures.
I have also fought to reduce pollution and address environmental justice because I believe everyone has a right to clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment. Too many Louisiana communities surrounded by industrial plants face massive amounts of hazardous and toxic pollution.
As a state legislator, I fought to establish real time monitoring and warning systems to alert first responders and neighbors of dangerous events. I authored legislation to get a handle on lead contamination in Louisiana drinking water systems and to require testing of drinking water systems at child care facilities, schools, and playgrounds.I fought for legislation to address ongoing contamination from abandoned oil and gas wells throughout the state.
Too many low–income families and communities of color are drowning in cancer-causing pollutants in Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District and I believe our response to climate change has to be rooted in the understanding that climate justice is linked to racial justice, economic justice, and health justice. I believe that aggressive action is needed and that the Green New Deal offers a path forward.
I support measures in the GND to achieve net-zero U.S. greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers while creating millions of jobs. I support reducing the carbon emissions of all the major segments of the economy — power, manufacturing, buildings, transportation and more, and investments in climate-friendly infrastructure.I support protections for fence-line and frontline communities like those communities in Cancer Alley, and indigenous tribal communities in coastal Louisiana.
I reject the false choice between growing our economy and combating climate change. We can build a thriving, equitable, and globally competitive clean energy economy that puts workers and communities first. In Louisiana, we’ve relied on oil and gas for too long without realizing our potential in wind and solar. In Congress, I will fight for federal incentives to expand production of the wind and solar industries, which will create thousands of new high-paying green jobs and reduce our carbon footprint.
Finally, upon election Congress, I’ll support immediate action to reverse the Trump Administration’s dangerous and destructive rollbacks of critical climate and environmental protections. In Congress I will fight to protect the Clean Air act and the Clean Water act from industry attacks, and to ensure that we hold polluters accountable for violations
