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Ask alaska. alaska california. alaska t ask the gulf coast. destroying the environment. if my goal is to get our electricity zero carbon emission, that means phasing off of fossil fuels. if were going to get there to net zero carbon emissions by 2045 for our whole nation we have to get off of fossil fuels. so why would i allow new leases? but this is not just offshore drilling, this is things like fracking on public land. >> that was my next question. would you ban fracking? >> listen, right awa...

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When leaders lead. in california weve put in place some would say some of the toughest, some of the smartest laws. and required changes in behaviors. i dont think anybody youve talked to who has lived in california over all those years would see any drastic change to their lifestyle. they may say, im now driving a car that i cant really hear sometimes. that prius, right? they might say, you know, sometimes i have to, i am now aware that i should turn off the lights every time i leave the room. m...

What i am doing is moving us away from fracking and natural gas and investing in wind energy, solar energy, other renewables to get us to net zero by 2045. >> are you in favor of a carbon-free america, and if so, by when? >> i am in favor of a carbon-free america. i believe that we can get to net zero by 2045 and that we can achieve in our electricity sector for instance, relying on clean renewable and zero emissions energy by 2035. >> mr. secretary, we have a lot more questions just ahead. plus...

Taxing the polluters. my next question is how do you pay for all this and i know people care about clean water so the plan is to replace all residential school, daycare and service water lines and all that contain high levels of lead contaminated dust which is a huge issue in this country so how does he pay for it? >> like i said, you have to make polluters pay. they deserve to pay. >> how? >> increase taxes on them. also were providing subsidies, a lot of subsidies to these folks who do not des...

Been any concerted policy planning and action on that issue in washington. >> its a great point. how much of this, how many voters out there, and we hope they watch, because the policy debates are great, but how many voters are saying im not sure whether -- lets go through one of the issues in these plans. how fast do you want to hit net zero emissions? 2045 is the target for cory booker, julian castro. 2050 is what amy klobuchar, pete buttigieg says. are there voters who will say, aha, im for w...

This morning kamala harris has just released her plan to fight the climate crisis. she aims to be carbon neutral by 2045. five candidates have unveiled their plans ahead of cnns big town hall on this topic tonight. how do the plans stack up? lets bring in bill weier. great to see you. >> great to see you. >> seven hours on the climate crisis. just take us behind the scenes. why did cnn decide to do one topic with this? >> because there was so much cryout from those voters who put this topic at t...

Lets concentrate on cory booker, the presidents campaign manager. a pleasure to see you again ahead of the big night on cnn. so, of all the details in the plan, he said it would cost $3 trillion to create a carbon neutral economy by 2045. so what does that look like and how does he pull that off? >> first of all, we have to do it. its not an option. climate change is an existential threat to this country and we have no other option than to invest and invest big. there are two ways we pay for it....

Actions and legislation. just yesterday i put out a plan called people first, planet first. we would make investments to get the united states to net zero by 2045. we would incentivize wind energy production, solar energy production, invest in renewables. we would challenge the rest of the world at latest to get to net zero by 2050. we would institute a carbon pollution fee to help make the investments that we need to make. we would also take executive orders. for instance, prohibiting fossil fu...

Drag me down the way that he dragged hillary clinton down. now are democratic voters going to continue to buy this? well just have to wait and see. >> is abandon this sorrow tone and say, they tried to push me to the left in the primary and i didnt go. thats why you can have faith in me and support me and not worry about the economy. you are getting all the good stuff, just none of the tweets. that is the message he is going to run and i think its going to be a very effective message. but i thin...