Environment
1) IGP calls for the implementation of stronger air and water quality standards throughout the State of Indiana.
2) IGP opposes all logging on public lands.
3) IGP calls for limiting forestry in the State of Indiana to sustainable forestry practices only, including forestry on privately-owned land.
4) IGP supports the development of biking and hiking trails on public lands wherever these would not unduly harmful to ecosystems.
5) IGP supports linking public forest lands with wildlife corridors.
6) IGP supports protection of endangered species.
7) IGP supports further development of existing, and launching new community recycling programs.
8) Extractive mining practices and coal burning in Indiana and elsewhere are environmentally destructive. The IGP calls for accelerating the implementation of wind, solar, and other renewable, non-fossil-fuel based electricity production. The IGP calls for the development of home-based and local community-based self-sufficiency in electricity generation through renewable energy. The IGP supports public subsidies for these purposes where necessary. The IGP calls for ending the use of coal for electricity production.
9) IGP supports immediate action to address the following specific environmental problems in Indiana:
• Depleted Uranium at Jefferson Proving Grounds;
• Nerve gas at Newport;
• Brown field re-mediation;
• Dumping fly-ash in coal mines;
• U.S. Steel dredging in the Grand Calumet River;
• Aging oil tanks at the British Petroleum facility in northwestern Indiana.
10. IGP proposes that the Rocky Mountain Express (REX) pipeline be rerouted from its currently proposed path to make use of existing rights-of-way.