WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Cory Booker on Tuesday called for spending $3 trillion to combat climate change while replacing lead water pipes across the country.

Booker offered his environmental plan while officials in his home city of Newark continued to distribute bottled water to residents with high levels of lead in their water. He is a former mayor of the city and oversaw the city’s water system, though left office before lead levels spiked.

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate pledged to replace all lead water lines to schools, day care centers and homes, as well as remove lead from housing units, by 2028, the end of a second term in the White House. Money would come from a new Environmental Justice Fund, led by a White House adviser for environmental justice.

Booker called for a 100 percent clean energy economy, with investments into energy sources, storage and electric vehicles to end carbon emissions. He would ban all new drilling leases, both for offshore and onshore wells, end fracking used to tap natural gas, end taxpayer subsidies to the oil industry, and impose a carbon tax on sources of fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas and oil, much of which would be returned to U.S. taxpayers as a monthly dividend.

The senator has helped push back against President Donald Trump’s efforts to allow offshore drilling off the Jersey Shore.

“We are facing a dual crisis of climate change and economic inequality,” Booker said. “Without immediate action, we risk an incredible human toll from disasters, health impacts, rising national security threats, and trillions of dollars in economic losses."

“To end the real and growing threat of climate change and to create a more just country for everyone, we must heal these past mistakes and act boldly to create a green and equitable future,” Booker said.

As president, Booker said he would increase enforcement actions against polluters, strengthen motor vehicle fuel economy standards that Trump wants to roll back, require that all passenger cars built after 2030 have no emissions, ban all new leases for oil and gas leases, rejoin the multinational Paris agreement to combat climate change, and negotiate new trade agreements that include environmental and labor standards.

Booker announced his plan a day before he will join nine other Democratic presidential candidates at a CNN town hall on the environment. Booker and U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris of California, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts all are all sponsors of the Green New Deal, a congressional resolution calling on the U.S to phase out global emissions by 2050 and move to clean energy sources. All will be at Wednesday’s town hall.

In the days leading up to the plan’s release, Booker offered contributors a chance to win two tickets, travel expenses and a hotel room to join him at the CNN event.

Last month, Booker called for planting 15 billion trees and resurrecting the Civilian Conservation Corps, modeled after the New Deal-era program, as part of an effort to combat climate change. The idea was to increase the amount of carbon emissions now absorbed by soil, forests and wetlands.

Read more of NJ.com’s coverage of New Jersey water issues here.

Jonathan D. Salant may be reached at jsalant@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @JDSalant or on Facebook. Find NJ.com Politics on Facebook.

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