Issue Position: Environment

Issue Position

Nanette understands that climate change is an urgent environmental problem and she intends to act accordingly. She will fight to combat climate change and work to transition us to clean, renewable energy. Besides closing tax loopholes and ending subsidies for toxic polluters, Nanette knows we have to employ creative strategies to attract and incentivize clean green businesses to locate in the 44th District.

As a councilmember, Nanette championed environmental initiatives and will continue to support and lead efforts to preserve open space, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and increase solar installations by making them more affordable. She supports local efforts to determine the feasibility of Community Choice power to supply cleaner, locally-produced, lower cost energy to our communities. Most recently, she was a leader in the successful fight that prevented oil drilling in the Santa Monica Bay. Nanette worked with grassroots community activists to soundly defeat Measure O at the ballot box despite a multimillion dollar campaign by oil companies. In recognition of her work, Nanette was honored by the Sierra Club with one of their 2015 political leadership awards on the environment.

Nanette will continue to fight to protect our public health. There is no issue more important than the health of our families. That's why we need a representative who will not pander to big corporate polluters who put the health and safety of our communities at risk-- raising asthma rates and respiratory illness and making climate change impacts worse. We owe it to our children to leave them a better planet than the one we inherited. We can and will move towards a sustainable future for our community by ending tax breaks for these polluters and using that money to create new, good-paying, renewable energy jobs and taking the positive steps to protect our community's health currently harmed by pollution. By investing in these clean technologies, we can not only create jobs here in our community, but also make significant progress in our journey to preserve a healthy, prosperous future for the generations to come and put America back in control of our own energy destiny.

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