Elizabeth Warren in CNN "State of the Union" interviews during 2019

On Energy & Oil: No more nuclear plants; get off nuclear energy by 2035

Q: Would you push for a carbon tax as an efficient way to reduce carbon emissions?

WARREN: If you're going to be spewing carbon into the air, it's your responsibility to clean it up. But I actually have a more aggressive plan: By 2028, we don't have any more new building that has any carbon footprint. By 2030, we do the same thing on vehicles, on our cars and light-duty trucks. And by 2035, we do the same thing on electric generation. That will cut 70% of the carbon that we are curren into the air.

Q: What about nuclear energy to help replace fossil fuels?

WARREN: It's not carbon-based, but the problem is it's got a lot of risks associated with it, particularly the risks associated with the spent fuel rods that nobody can figure out how we're going to store these things for the next bazillion years. In my administration, we're not going to build any new nuclear power plants and are going to start weaning ourselves off nuclear energy and replacing it with renewable

Source: Climate Crisis Town Hall (CNN 2019 Democratic primary) Sep 4, 2019

On Free Trade: Climate adjustment fee on imports based on carbon use

I think that we need a climate adjustment fee on products that are imported to the United States. Think about it this way. There's something that takes a lot of carbon to produce. We can't simply export our pollution and say as long as they produce it across the border or somewhere else, then it's OK with us. The answer is, you want to import something here in the United States, we want to know, how much carbon was used to produce that? And let's think about how we have to equalize pric Source: Climate Crisis Town Hall (CNN 2019 Democratic primary) Sep 4, 2019

On Principles & Values: I'm not a Democratic Socialist; we can gain from markets

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said that she is not a Democratic Socialist, drawing a line between herself and Bernie Sanders, whose views draw frequent comparisons between the two. Sanders, an independent from Vermont, identifies as a Democratic Socialist, and Warren was asked to differentiate.

"Bernie has to speak to what Democratic Socialism is," replied Warren. The interview asked, "And you are not one?"

"I am not. And the centrists have to speak to whatever they are doing. What I can speak is to is how I am doing," Warren said.

She continued: "All I can tell you is what I believe. And that is there is an enormous amount to be gained from markets. That markets create opportunities. Markets have to have rules. They have to have a cop on the beat," she said, adding that "markets without rules are theft."

Source: CNN.com on 2019 SXSW South-by-Southwest conference Mar 9, 2019

The above quotations are from CNN "State of the Union" interviews during 2019 (Jake Tapper and Dana Bash interviewing candidates for 2019-2020 races). Click here for other excerpts from CNN "State of the Union" interviews during 2019 (Jake Tapper and Dana Bash interviewing candidates for 2019-2020 races). Click here for other excerpts by Elizabeth Warren. Click here for a profile of Elizabeth Warren.
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