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<font size="+1">Bernie Sanders Announces Aggressive Anti-Global
Warming Plan<br>
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Cenk Uygur speaks about Bernie Sanders's recently announced
climate plan:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVBHxhzV-98">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVBHxhzV-98</a> Time Length: 7:20<br>
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Here's some background information Uygur used in his report:<br>
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http://www.vox.com/2015/12/7/9861048/sanders-climate-plan</a><br>
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<p>On Monday, Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign <a
href="https://berniesanders.com/people-before-polluters/">unveiled
a big new climate platform</a> — Sanders's grand vision for how
he'd like to tackle global warming. And there are two main
components here:</p>
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<li>First, Sanders is proposing a slew of policies aimed at
cutting US greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels
by 2050 while trying to phase out nuclear power. Steps include:
a carbon tax, major investments in renewable energy and electric
vehicles, and aid for dislocated workers and vulnerable
communities.</li>
<li>Second, Sanders is touting a<em> </em>strategy for weakening
the influence of oil, gas, and coal companies, which, he argues,
is <em>the</em> key reason we haven't solved climate change
yet. Actions here include: banning fossil fuel lobbyists from
the White House, repealing tax breaks for oil firms, and
blocking new drilling and fossil fuel exports where possible. It
also includes getting the Justice Department to investigate
companies, like ExxonMobil, suspected of funding climate denial.
And it includes restricting corporate funding of electoral
campaigns.</li>
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<p>Much of the coverage so far has focused on the first part, the
ambitious targets and the carbon tax. We'll get to those in a bit.
But it's arguably the second part, the call for all-out war
against fossil fuel interests, that sets Sanders's platform apart
from traditional Democratic climate proposals.</p>
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Ken<br>
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