Ralph Nader, Presidential Candidate

Submitted by Is_Ralph_Nader_... on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 23:30.

Indepenent Party Candidate Ralph Nader

Greenwasher?

Mr Nader's stated green positions/activities/accomplishments:

Supports a carbon tax to make polluting fuels and technology more expensive
Calls for phasing out all fossil fuels within 20 to 25 years -- coal and oil first, then natural gas.
Supports raising vehicle fuel-economy standards. In 2000 and 2004, I called for increasing standards for cars to 45 miles per gallon and light trucks to 35 mpg, to be phased in over five years.
Supports solar, wind, tidal, and other sources of renewable power.
Opposes corn-based ethanol, but supports cellulosic ethanol and other forms of biomass that produce significantly more energy than they consume over their lifecycles.
Opposes nuclear power, as well as government subsidies and loan guarantees for the nuclear industry.
Helped form many public-interest nonprofit groups, such as the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), Critical Mass Energy Project, Center for Study of Responsive Law, Public Citizen, and the Center for Auto Safety. Some of these groups then contributed to the birth of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and lobbied Congress [PDF] to implement fuel-economy regulations for vehicles and enact the Superfund law.
Contributed to the creation of many important environmental and consumer-protection laws, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Wholesome Meat Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and the Freedom of Information Act.
Opposes coal; has disparaged mountaintop-removal mining and criticized the Bush administration for what he says is its lax approach to coal-mine safety.
Fact Sheet: http://grist.org/feature/2008/03/19/nader_factsheet/
Interview: http://grist.org/feature/2008/03/19/nader/
Press: http://www.grist.org/cgi-bin/search.pl?query=Ralph+Nader