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Posted: 2019-06-24T12:00:48Z | Updated: 2019-06-24T15:00:48Z

Democratic presidential candidate Jay Inslee already laid out plans to shut down all coal plants by 2030, spur a clean-energy construction boom and target climate change deniers overseas with anti-corruption laws.

Now the Washington governor, whose White House bid is entirely centered on climate change, is out with a new proposal to end federal support for fossil fuel production and make the industry pay for some of the damages emissions are causing.

At a time when President Donald Trumps Energy Department extolls the virtues of freedom gas in official press releases, Inslees nearly 11,000-word Freedom from Fossil Fuels plan imagines what federal policy might look like under an administration that takes seriously scientists projections of warming over the next few decades.

The proposal calls for eliminating nearly $20 billion in coal, gas and oil subsidies, tax breaks and royalty exemptions, and halt leasing of federal lands to drillers. It promises to work toward a nationwide ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the technology that helped the United States surpass Saudi Arabia and Russia as the worlds top producer of crude. It vows an end to oil exports, and outlines a climate test for all infrastructure permitting, which would essentially put a stop to most new pipelines, refineries and fuel terminals.

The plan even teases the possibility of nationalizing parts of the fossil fuel industry by buying out and decommissioning assets, making Inslee the first 2020 contender to consider the idea, though he stopped short of making that specific call.

When youre in a hole, you have to stop digging, Inslee told HuffPost by phone Sunday. We have to stare the fossil fuel industry in the eye and say, The gravy train is over.

But the plan goes further than simply deflating the value of fossil fuels by reversing favorable federal regulations. Inslee pledged to wield his pulpit as the Democratic Partys de facto leader to enact a fee on companies greenhouse gas emissions and establish a new office in the Department of Justice to prosecute polluters to the fullest extent of civil and criminal law.

This will get us off fossil fuels in the only time period thats consistent with our survival in the world as we know it, Inslee said. Dont expect these people to go easily.