Platform & Record In-Depth

• Opposes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and has supported legislation to turn it into a wilderness area.
  
  
• Cosponsor of a bill that would require the U.S. to get 20 percent of its electricity supply from renewable sources by 2020. Has also called for a target of 20 percent renewable-generated electricity by 2010.
  
  
• Supports a bill that would raise fuel-economy standards for automobiles to 35 miles per gallon by 2018, including for autos up to 10,000 pounds.
  
  
• Calls for support of organic family farmers.
  
  
• Cosponsor of bills that would assist and promote farmers' markets.
  
  
• Calls for repealing NAFTA and dissolving the WTO, in part because he says they have allowed and encouraged environmental degradation.
  
  
• Opposes privatization of water systems.
  
  
• Has repeatedly accused oil companies of price gouging. In 2005, introduced the Gas Price Spike Act, which would impose a "windfall profits" tax on oil companies and use the revenue to fund transit and fuel-efficient cars.
  
  
• Calls for electronics manufacturers to take back their products after their useful lives and figure out ways to responsibly reuse or recycle them, as a way to deal with the problem of electronic waste.
  
  
• Has called for caution [DOC] in the spraying of pesticides to combat West Nile Virus, asking the government in 2004 to consider the long-term environmental and human-health effects.
  
  
• Wants to regulate emissions from factory farms as industrial pollution subject to permits, limits, and fines for non-compliance.
  
  
• Expresses serious concerns about genetically engineered food, and has introduced legislation that would regulate it and require it to be labeled.
  
  
• Cosponsor of a bill that would fund study of widespread honeybee disappearances, aka colony collapse disorder.
  
  
• Calls for legalization of hemp farming.
  
  
• Consistently supports a wide range of animal welfare bills in Congress.
  
  
• In 2002, voted against storing nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain repository now being built in southern Nevada.
  
  

Still Haven't Gotten Enough?

• Read Grist's 2003 interview with Dennis Kucinich, conducted during his previous bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
  
  
• Read Kucinich's environmental platform on his campaign website.
  
  
• Read Kucinich's official bio.
  
  

What did we miss? Tell us below in comments. We'll update this page as the presidential campaign continues.

Todd Hymas Samkara and Kate Sheppard contributed to this fact sheet.

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