Dean calls for a 100-year vision for the environment.

Howard Dean delivers a major environmental policy address in San Francisco today. In prepared remarks, Dean laid out 4 key points to the Dean environmental strategy:

Promoting "livable communities." As president, Dean will work to help strengthen our downtowns and urban areas. Doing so will help protect our wild and open spaces and will help reduce energy consumption.

Establishing an Environmentally Sound Energy Policy. Dean's energy policy will focus on energy efficiency and renewable energy. To help encourage renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, Dean advocates requiring 20 percent of our electricity come from renewable energy sources by 2020.

Putting the 'protection' back in Environmental Protection. Dean will undo the Bush Administration's anti-environmental actions and will work to reestablish important environmental protections, including the road-less rule put in place by President Clinton. Dean supports elevating EPA to cabinet status. Dean also believes we must improve and strengthen the Superfund and Brownfields programs to clean up more sites more quickly.

Reengaging with the international community and restoring our nation's role as a global leader on environmental issues. For instance, recognizing the threat of global warming, Dean believes we must work toward a Kyoto Protocol we can adopt. Dean believes the agreement should be strengthened to include carbon pollution reductions by developing nations as well as developed nations.

"I want Americans a hundred years from now to inherit a better natural world than we have today. Better because we have taken the steps to reverse the damage done by the Bush-Cheney-Norton Administration. It will be part of the Great Restoration we seek. And the sooner we can start that, the better," Dean said in prepared remarks. "Today, we have a Republican president who seeks to reverse decades of responsible environmental policy. We have a president who seems to regard public resources as gifts to be handed out to special interests. We can take America back from those who care more about returning a favor to a friend than about creating a sensible environmental or energy policy. And once we do, we can take America forward--and the world with us."