What would a Harris presidency mean for the environment?

What would a Harris presidency mean for the environment?
by Zack Budryk - 07/26/24 5:30 AM ET


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“I think she deserves more credit than she often gets in this area,” said Lena Moffitt, executive director at Evergreen Action. “She’s made it a priority of the offices she’s overseen going back two decades in a way that’s really impressive.”

Harris’s tenure as California Attorney General included a 2016 investigation into allegations that ExxonMobil knowingly concealed the impacts of fossil fuels on climate change, although no case was ultimately filed. The same year, her office reached a $14 million settlement with BP subsidies over allegations the companies had not properly secured leaky underground gas tanks at California stations, and brought criminal indictments against a Houston pipeline operator over a 2015 rupture in Santa Barbara County.

As a senator and presidential candidate, Harris staked out positions to Biden’s left on climate and energy issues. Unlike Biden, she supported a fracking ban and the ambitious suite of climate actions introduced by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) known as the Green New Deal.

“We’re seeing this enthusiasm for a reason,” Moffitt said. “She has gone out on a limb to show leadership in this area.”

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4792240-vice-president-harris-environmental-record/