I guess there are different "green new deal"s floating around? The one AOC famously supports, which I think is what people are usually referring to these days,

I guess there are different "green new deal"s floating around? The one AOC famously supports, which I think is what people are usually referring to these days, doesn't have some of the hard provisions you're talking about. Here's a nice rundown if you're interested: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/11/whats-actually-green-new-deal-democrats/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/11/whats-act... Also, it is actually an aspirational statement of direction. It's just a resolution and doesn't, e.g, change any laws or allocate any funds, etc. So I think you've got some bad information about the fundamentals of it. (BTW, I'm not myself a supporter of the green new deal. I agree with most of the goals, but it's a marketing effort, not a plan. As such, I think is going to fail and will make it less likely the goals will be achieves or cause them to be achieved less well.)