YANA LUDWIG is running for US SENATE in Wyoming... an Ecology Activist... against Liz Cheney, the Vice President's Daughter...

https://www.yana4wyo.com/

WHO IS YANA LUDWIG?

Mayana (Yana) Katherine Ludwig is a 49 year old Laramie resident who was born in Bemidji, MN, having missed the excitement of the 1960’s by a mere 5 weeks. She is a bisexual woman married to Matt Stannard, the former debate coach at the University of Wyoming and a UW Law school graduate. Matt is a writer, producer, and teacher on cooperative economics and debate. Between them they have 7 kids, 4 of whom are students in Wyoming’s public school system.

Yana has long history of social justice and ecological activism, starting as a kid following her ecologist dad around the Great Lakes as he did toxicology research on bird populations, and land reclamation work on former mining sites.

YANA LUDWIG'S PLATFORM

https://www.yana4wyo.com/platform

MARIJUANA

I favor the full legalization and decriminalization of marijuana, including releasing people who are serving sentences for marijuana-related charges, and wiping the records of all people with marijuana convictions. There should also be recognition of the uneven impact marijuana conviction have had on communities of color and poor communities, and legal corrections for those past harms.

CLIMATE DISRUPTION

The Green New Deal sets goals (which are great), but not specific policies. The policies need to include green infrastructure, transportation and energy, and focus on economic health for “fossil fuel states” like Wyoming. I favor the bipartisan Carbon Fee and Dividend bill promoted by Citizens Climate Lobby. This would provide monthly dividends to all people, rising over time. We must further use safe, proven technology to capture carbon. The most tried and true method for this is trees. My Billion Tree Initiative would draw labor from two places: states that rely most heavily on fossil fuels currently for their economic vibrancy, and a massive reallocation of military personnel away from overseas war-making, which is disastrous ecologically and leaves vets with high levels of PTSD and depression that is inadequately treated when they come home. 
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Note that my 2017 book, Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption, has a full platform related to climate.

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Burning Coal Caused the "London Fog" - 12 Thousand People Died from Air Pollution. Coal Ash is a Serious Solid Waste problem too. It leaches poisons into drinking water. Solar, Wind and Hydro are Safe, Clean and Infinite.

The cause of the London Fog was a weather pattern that kept all the coal smoke near the ground... If you think about this in a GLOBAL SCALE,  all the coal smoke now is kept near the planet Earth... Even if we dig up coal in West Virginia and ship it overseas, when they burn it the air pollution stays near planet Earth and Blows all over... We are trapped inside a bubble of air pollution...

Donald Trump received One Million Dollars for his Presidential Campaign from the Murray Coal Company. Robert Murray also donated $300,000 to the Inauguration Party. Magically, Donald Trump invented the Term "Clean Coal" and recommended that the Tennessee Valley Authority NOT close down two Coal Fired Power Plants. TVA Disobeyed Trump's Tweet and closed the power plants anyway... they said that Coal is unbelievably expensive... The State of Wyoming has used Taxpayer Dollars to subsidize Coal Fired Power Plants... they simply cannot compete with solar and wind due to the high cost. 

The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air-pollution event that affected the British capital of London in early December 1952. A period of cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants—mostly arising from the use of coal—to form a thick layer of smog over the city. It lasted from Friday, 5 December, to Tuesday, 9 December 1952, and then dispersed quickly when the weather changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London

The minor constituents of Coal ash may include one or more of the following elements or compounds found in trace concentrations: arsenic, beryllium, boron, cadmium, chromium, hexavalent chromium, cobalt, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, thallium, and vanadium.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_ash

How Federal Giveaways to Big Coal Leave Ranchers and Taxpayers Out in the Cold. Short cuts, subsidies and tax breaks helped create 7,000 jobs in the Powder River Basin. Damage to water, air and land is part of the price borne by the public, too.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29122017/wyoming-powder-river-basin-coal-subsidies-climate-change-oil-gas-trump

Trump intervenes in support of coal plant owned by major donor. Trump Tweeted: “Coal is an important part of our electricity generation mix, and [the Tennessee Valley Authority] should give serious consideration to all factors before voting to close viable power plants, like Paradise #3 in Kentucky!”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-intervenes-support-coal-plant-owned-major-donor