Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) envisions a Green New Deal that rapidly phases out fossil fuels. But on Monday, he said that doesn’t mean coal miners, gas drillers and pipeline builders should expect to take a pay cut.

“All they are trying to do is feed their families,” Sanders said at his CNN town hall Monday night. “We have many, many billions of dollars to go into those communities to help workers get the training … they need to get jobs that will pay them as much or even more.”

Sanders stood out in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary for his opposition to hydraulic fracturing, the drilling technique known as fracking and credited with spurring the American oil and gas boom. He’s made climate change a central theme of his second White House run. In December, before announcing his candidacy, he hosted a town hall on the issue. In February, he co-sponsored the Senate resolution outlining what future Green New Deal legislation should include.

The senator is expected to release some kind of Green New Deal legislation in the coming months.