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Weirdly, not once in this ABC News article do they wonder why she takes so much fossil fueled travel and doesn’t use an EV

Where Kamala Harris stands on Green New Deal and climate initiatives

Vice President Kamala Harris has officially thrown her hat in the ring for the 2024 presidential race with President Joe Biden’s endorsement, following his announcement Sunday he’s stepping aside.

As the nation begins to envision a possible Harris presidency, her history of environmental policy is receiving renewed attention.

As a U.S. senator, Harris was an early co-sponsor of the Green New Deal, a non-binding blueprint for transitioning the country to 100% clean energy within a decade. The Green New Deal was first introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Edward Markey in February 2019.

Yeah, that went nowhere for years. Democrats had to jam it into a bill that was supposed to be about inflation to move many of the measures, which raise the cost of living for Americans.

Harris also called for a “climate pollution fee” that would “make polluters pay for emitting greenhouse gases into our atmosphere,” and she indicated that a Harris administration would strengthen its enforcement and prosecution of fossil fuel companies.

That would also increase your cost of living as the fees would be passed on. Rich folks like Cackles wouldn’t suffer, but, it would harm the working and middle classes. Also, under what Legislative authority would she do any of that?

During a CNN forum on climate change in 2020, Harris said she opposed fracking and offshore drilling. She said she would also ban fossil fuel leases on public lands if elected as president.

Be funny if the fossil fuels companies refused to sell to the federal government. How much was used for her to travel to Charlotte last Thursday?

When she was San Francisco’s district attorney, Harris created what she called the nation’s first environmental justice unit.

“Crimes against the environment are crimes against communities, people who are often poor and disenfranchised,” Harris said in 2005. “The people who live in those communities often have no other choice but to live there.” Harris supports the Paris Climate Agreement and has said she will make the climate crisis a top national security priority.

Da, Comrade. Thought Crimes. Oh, she also put a lot of people who committed low level drug crimes in jail for a long time.

I’m not adding a Kamala category or doing a climate clown graphic until she wins the convention.