1. Set ambitious vehicle pollution standards for all vehicles to put the U.S. on a path to 100% zero pollution new cars by 2035, and new trucks and buses no later than 2040. Clean truck standards can help reduce hundreds of millions of metric tons of climate pollution and hundreds of thousands of tons of local health harming pollutants.  And clean school buses are equally urgent. Today, 99% of our nation's school buses emit harmful pollutants. Those pollutants contribute to asthma, cancers and other ailments - with disproportionate harm done to children and disadvantaged communities.

2. Secure federal funding for thousands of new jobs to plug “orphan wells” — oil and gas wells that the industry simply walked away from when they ceased to be profitable, without bothering to properly seal them to prevent air, water and climate pollution. There are tens of thousands of orphan wells in the United States alone. And there are hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, more inactive and unplugged wells that also need to be addressed.

3. Ensure that a low-carbon future will bring benefits to all people by prioritizing investment in communities that have historically suffered the worst climate and air pollution. One such current project is designing and implementing community-scale, low-carbon microgrid systems in rural Puerto Rico. People living in these remote locations have sometimes gone weeks without power in the wake of a hurricane. These new microgrids will bring the reliable, affordable energy these communities need to survive and thrive in a warming world.