@mariuspaul10:
The GoC does not even debate the rape of Indigenous People and women in the commons, so-called, like Israel does.
Isabelle@Darkiora:
So the gang raped Palestinian detainee that was hospitalized after major ruptures in his organs, has died. Meanwhile the 9 Israeli jailers that inflicted that torture on the man, are being released after Israeli protesters including ministries protested for their right to rape. This is Israel in a nutshell. They get to rape, torture and kill Palestinians as much as they want, as their g-d given right and be celebrated for it, because Palestinians lives don’t matter and Israelis are the chosen ones. This is the sickness the West is protecting to the last tooth, and they’re willing to go down with it.
@TanausuX:
Israelis are raping Palestinian men, women and children to death.
And some people still don’t understand why Palestinians have decided to fight back?
@SamanthaJaneS:
They have murdered thousands of the Palestinian people. What do they have to fight with. There only recourse, is to survive
This isn’t a war. This is an attempted annihilation, of the Palestinian people. All under the rule of #Netanyahu
Innocent Children, innocent Human beings. @johncusack
@LexiAlex:
We all knew she’d look for the most hardcore zionist
@kevinwhorgan:
Aipac’s pick
Harris has just been told to rubber stamp it
@DiaMorehead:
… But she IS going to pick Shapiro, so we need to think ahead, how are we going to respond? What will the next few weeks look like, how will the election go, and how will the court battles after that go?
@CoyTokie:
It’s going to Beshear.
@DiaMorehead:
From your lips to God’s ears, but I’m certain they’re not smart enough to pick Beshear or Walz. They’re going with Shapiro
I think so too. Evil needs evil to succeed while frac’ing the shit out of the world’s drinking water supplies
Jeff Melnick@melnickjeffrey1:
I won’t vote for the Dems if Shapiro is the VP pick: his attacks on public schools and on protesters supporting justice in Palestine are attacks on two of the core values of the family I made.
How could I look my beloved children in the eyes if I voted for him?
@Ukemike:
You forgot cozying up to the same criminal oil company that poisoned the water of many Pennsylvanians.
He once fought the oil company but as governor he let them start fracking again and hasn’t enforced the settlement. Many still can’t drink their tap water.
@stephensemler:
-April 24: Josh Shapiro compares anti-war campus protesters to the KKK
-May 9: Shapiro demands UPenn “restore order” on campus
-May 10: Police storm the UPenn encampment & arrest 33 protesters
-May 17: Police arrest 19 people at UPenn for protesting the previous week’s arrests
@StephenJ_Caruso:
New: Gov. Josh Shapiro is backing a bipartisan bill to block state appropriations to any college or university that divests from Israel after a wave of protests on college campuses calling for such action in response to the War in Gaza. Via @KateHuangpu13
Colleges would face financial punishments for boycotting or divesting from Israel under new Pa. bill
@houk_linda:
He was involved in helping pass anti BDS legislation in 2016 as a county executive. This press release uses his statements from that time to help push sanctioning Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in PA. That’s what allows him to pull funding from schools
BDS Letter and Act 163 of 2016
@rafaelshimunov:
Oh I dunno, Shapiro has been banning free speech, vilifying and smearing anti war protests, cheerleading genocide, destroying public education and abandoning special needs kids.
@ARABIAFATS:
they’re trying to put together the most zio ticket possible i guess ???
Sam Husseini@samhusseini:
Netanyahu was just appeased in the US for his Gaza genocide.
So now he’s escalating in Lebanon.
Did people learn nothing from Hitler?
Syrian Girl @Partisangirl:
Israel released the 9 soldiers that sodomised Palestinian hostages. The pro-rape camp won.
Israelis celebrates. Here’s your shared western values.
@gregjstoker:
Israel just dropped a bomb on a large residential neighborhood in Beirut while its lawmakers debate whether or not it’s legal to rape Palestinians.
Just an average Tuesday in the failing colonial project…
Halli@iamharaldur:
There was a riot in Israel. The rioters, some of them ministers in the government, are demanding that soldiers have the right to torture and rape Palestinian prisoners.
The outburst came after a gang rape of a prisoner became public.
This is the result of the decades long dehumanisation of Palestinians.
All human beings have equal rights.
cheri @cheriblossom__:
The main soldier of the rape incident was released from custody.
@CaioAlmendra:
Remember when liberal zionists said the Judiciary would save the country against Bibi? It was a judge that released this rapist…Releasing rapists is what judges do best (or worst, if you’re one of the endless victims); even though it’s especially rampant in Canada, it’s a global judicial disease serving rape religions and the raping patriarchy.
@abierkhatib:
I feel like someone threw acid on my eyes
The wife of the Israeli rapist soldier declares full support for her husband violently raping a Palestinian.
Just F**** wow
@SanaSaeed:
Here’s why it makes sense: In addition to getting Pennsylvania, Shapiro reassures the pro-Israel Democratic base.
While Harris will bring ‘empathetic’ language to the genocide in Gaza, Shapiro’s presence on the ticket – as a Jewish American Zionist with a history of anti-Arab/Palestinian viewpoints & anti-genocide speech repression who does not believe in 1A – will keep the pro-Israel donors happy and reassured she won’t sway much on Dems’ policy on Israel.
Markus Arike@marike1:
I’m certain that you know more about how DC works, but based on recent polls there is evidence that Harris can win PA without Shapiro while Walz would allow her to lock down the entire Rust Belt. Those are his people, he knows how to talk to them not down to them.
A new national spotlight shines on Josh Shapiro’s environmental record, The potential vice presidential pick points to a record that ‘holds polluters accountable,’ but environmentalists say that as governor, he’s courted the oil and gas industry by Kiley Bense, July 29, 2024, Inside Climate News
It was supposed to be a triumphant moment. Five months ago, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro traveled to a union hall in Scranton to announce a new energy plan his administration touted as a “bold vision for Pennsylvania’s energy future.”
But his speech was interrupted with a searing question from a resident of a Pennsylvania town that became infamous for fracking-related water contamination more than 14 years ago.
“When are you going to come back to Dimock?” Ray Kemble asked before he was escorted out. “I’ve got no water in the house. You know it, and you threw us under the bus.”
Manuel Bonder, a spokesperson for the governor, said Mr. Shapiro “will never forget the people of Dimock — and he has been working diligently alongside the Public Utilities Commission to ensure the public water line he secured gets built as quickly as possible.”Translation = Never
The public water line for Dimock residents was part of a plea agreement reached by then-Attorney General Shapiro with the company involved, Coterra Energypreviously Cabot Oil and Gas, in 2022. Two years later, some Dimock residents still do not have clean running water. Mr. Kemble’s anger is not just about the water line, it’s also about the quiet decision by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to lift a 12-year moratorium on fracking in the town This is very bad reporting making it sound like a moratorium on a whim, for nothing. It was not a moratorium. The regulator ordered no more drilling/frac’ing by Cabot in a 9 square mile area of extreme methane leakage by the company and subsequent contamination of the aquifer there until the company fixed its leaks and the contamination, which to this date, has not yet been done. Classic back stabbing by politicians and regulator alike, happens everywhere frac’ers frac and contaminate drinking water the day after the agreement was announced, allowing Coterra to drill in the area once again.
Now, with Mr. Shapiro reportedly on Vice President Kamala Harris’ shortlist of potential running mates, Mr. Kemble and others in Dimock want the American public to know what happened to them — and why they feel betrayed by the governor.
“He couldn’t even look at me,” Mr. Kemble said in a recent interview. “And he knows who I am.”
He added: “He’s done everything just the opposite of what he said he was going to do. I mean, everything he’s been doing is for industry. The hell with the people.”
‘Startling reversal on climate issues’
Mr. Shapiro’s spokesman said the governor, when he was attorney general, “secured a historic settlement for Pennsylvanians living in Dimock — getting Coterra Energy to finally take responsibility for polluting residents’ water and commit to building a new $16 million public water line to provide clean, reliable drinking water for generations to come. … The Governor and his Administration have been working aggressively to make good on these commitments and continue delivering for the people of Dimock.”
In a statement at the time of the settlement, a Coterra spokesman said the company “strives to follow best practiceswhich are just voluntary mean nothing guidelines and striving to means less than nothing when companies actively and intentionally violate such voluntary practices. Hell, frac’ers intentionally violate the law and regulators intentionally help them do it, and, exceed industry standardsalso voluntary!! while being meaningless in terms of protecting anything except more corporate profit-raping, and to continue to be a valuable community partnerWhat bullshit does that mean?.”
Dimock’s water contamination was featured in a 2010 documentary, “Gasland.” One scene showed a resident lighting his tap water on fire.
Mr. Kemble and the other Dimock residents who appeared in support of Mr. Shapiro at the settlement press conference did not know about the end of the drilling ban, but because of the timing, they believe Mr. Shapiro must have been aware.
“He paraded us around like puppets,” Mr. Kemble said.
The Scranton incident is one of several examples this year in which Mr. Shapiro has had to publicly contend with Pennsylvanians frustrated by what they see as his embrace of fossil fuel interests.
In March, the Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya van Rossum, confronted him about his support for hydrogen fuel hubs in Pennsylvania, one of which will rely on fracked natural gas. The same month, three climate activists were arrested outside his office in Harrisburg as they attempted to meet with the governor about his climate policies and relationship with the oil and gas industry.
From his handling of Dimock to his economic development plan supported by the American Petroleum Institute to a partnership with the fracking company CNX Resources, many environmental activists in the state are disappointed by Mr. Shapiro’s track record as governor. That disappointment is magnified by the tough stance he took on oil and gas companies as attorney general.
Since he became governor in 2023, Mr. Shapiro has “radically changed his environmental policy priorities and began to court fossil fuel companies,” Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania wrote this week in a new fact sheet about the governor’s “startling reversal on climate issues.”
In February 2023, the Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania heralded the election of an “environmental champion” as governor. Less than a year later, the same group was criticizing Mr. Shapiro’s economic plan as “a repackaging of the fossil fuel industry’s playbook in Pennsylvania.” Shapiro is Trump’s evil twin.
Meanwhile, the American Petroleum Institute’s Pennsylvania arm endorsed Mr. Shapiro’s “shared goal” of “ leveraging our state’s abundant natural gas resources to help accelerate economic growth.”
One of Mr. Shapiro’s signature accomplishments as attorney general — and a key reason for environmentalists’ optimism about his administration — was a comprehensive grand jury report on fracking in Pennsylvania. It concluded in 2020 that the state government had failed to “properly protect the health, safety and welfare of its citizens” during the fracking boom, validating concerns that residents had long voiced.
David Masur, executive director of PennEnvironment, the environmental research and advocacy organization, pointed to Mr. Shapiro’s work as attorney general on fracking and his response to the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, which occurred on the state border, as two of Mr. Shapiro’s achievements on the environment.
“His response to East Palestine, I thought, came across as aggressive,” he said. “And it fit his attorney general role of ‘I’m the cop on the beat making sure powerful interests don’t run roughshod over everyday Pennsylvanians.’”
‘Holding polluters accountable’
Mr. Shapiro is a charismatic speaker and a shrewd political strategist.Yup, he’s a perfect Zionist frac’er (Israel stole billions of dollars worth of Palestine’s oil and gas which must be frac’d)He’s also popular: polls show that 54 percent of Pennsylvania voters believe he’s done a good or excellent job as governor.Shapiro evilly did that on the backs of the frac harmed in Dimock. Disgusting and unforgivable.These qualities have served him well in a purple state with a divided legislature, and allies say he has succeeded in bringing opposing interests to the negotiating table in a way that rarely happens in contentious Pennsylvania.
“There’s certainly a lot to like in Gov. Shapiro as a V.P. candidate. He’s from the biggest swing state. He polls very high in the state. He’s an incredible fundraiser,” Mr. Masur said. Mr. Shapiro’s knack for uniting often-warring factions of the Democratic base is also an asset. “To his credit, he’s done a good job about building a bridge between the labor unions and the environmental community that didn’t exist before.”
Mr. Masur was part of Mr. Shapiro’s working group on Pennsylvania’s membership in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, convened to decide whether the state should join the cap-and-trade program that includes 10 other states and works to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power generation. Some environmental and climate organizations attacked the group for its secrecy — its agenda and members’ names were not made public until Inside Climate News unearthed the information — and because its ranks included fossil fuel executives from companies like CNX Resources and Shell.
The Shapiro administration framed the group as a bipartisan, coalition-building effort between labor, environmentalists and the energy industry. The group supported the idea of a “cap and invest” system for power utilities but did not endorse Pennsylvania’s membership in RGGI, and legal challenges to Pennsylvania’s involvement in the initiative are still pending. Its work led to Mr. Shapiro’s energy plan proposal, the Pennsylvania Climate Emissions Reduction Act, which would allow Pennsylvania to “determine its own cap on carbon and invest directly in lowering consumers’ electricity bills.”
The administration counts among Mr. Shapiro’s environmental achievements the two planned hydrogen hubs, which it says will create 41,000 jobs in Pennsylvania; a collaboration with CNX on environmental monitoring and chemical disclosures, and the company’s agreementFrac’ers have proven themselves unable and unwilling to keep promises and agreements to increase well setbacks near hospitals and schools; and the acceleration of a state program to plug abandoned and orphaned wells, part of a national effort to reduce methane emissions. His administration has also ordered the Department of Environmental Protection to “pursue formal rulemaking and policy changes” related to disclosure requirements for chemicals used in drilling.More con job spin. Full appropriate chemical disclosure before wells are drilled will never happen because companies control the regulators and politicians, and companies know if water well owners have the complete lists of chemicals injected they’d be much more able to successfully sue frac’ers that pollute their drinking water supplies
“The Shapiro Administration has prioritized same escape hatch words as “committing to.” Prioritizing does not mean it will happen, it just means the matter has been put to the top of the talk about it, lie about it while disregarding it listprotecting Pennsylvanians’ constitutional right to clean air and pure water — drawing down federal funding and cutting red tape to build up clean energy infrastructure in the Commonwealth, holding polluters accountable, and delivering millions of dollars for affected communities,” Mr. Bonder said in a statement.
The administration highlighted multi-million dollar settlements with Shell and agrichemical giant Monsanto over environmental damages and pollution violations; work by the Department of Environmental Protection to improve and reviewtranslation = deregulate its complaint process and registry system for oil and gas production; and investments of more than $500 million into clean water infrastructure in the state.
One of Mr. Shapiro’s most significant climate accomplishments came earlier this week, when he appeared in Allegheny County with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan to announce $396 million in federal grants for Pennsylvania under the Inflation Reduction Act. This money will go to a program called RISE PA, which stands for Reducing Industrial Sector Emissions in Pennsylvania.
The goal of the program is to “accelerate decarbonization” across the state by closing funding gaps for “hundreds of facilities” while also creating jobs and improving air quality. In a 2023 proposal, the Department of Environmental Protection wrote that the program would aim to reduce industrial emissions by 5 percent by funding projects ranging from energy efficiency and electrification to carbon capture and low-carbon fuels.Which are just scams for politicians to use to steal money from the public and launder that money into billion dollar gifts to oil and gas companies to increase production and pollution under the guise of sequestering carbon. As evil as USA Zionism giving billions of dollars in bombs to Israel to use to mass murder and torture innocent Palestinian kids
On July 22, Mr. Shapiro signed two energy-related bills into law. The first one created a “Solar for Schools” grant program that will help fund solar panels at Pennsylvania schools.
The second bill, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Gene Yaw, a longtime supporter of the oil and gas industry who used to represent Dimock before redistricting changes in 2022, will establish “a regulatory framework for carbon capture, utilization and sequestration.”Evil con job, happening across Canada too in oil and gas fields.
Environmentalists viewed some of these accomplishments in a very different light than the administration and its supporters. For them, Mr. Shapiro’s “all of the above” energy strategy is a dangerous capitulation to fossil fuel interests at a time when the impacts of climate change are worsening in Pennsylvania, contributing to heat waves, flooding and storms. In July 2023, the Center for Climate Integrity estimated that municipal governments in Pennsylvania will need to spend more than $15 billion before 2040 in order to adapt to climate change and protect residents from extreme weather.
Environmentalists see the CNX partnership as a “slap in the face” after years spent struggling to raise the alarm about the harms of fracking. They wonder how the governor could trust a company he had once charged with violating the Air Pollution Control Act.
And they question why the 2023 results of a $3 million study commissioned by the state Department of Health to look at the impacts of fracking on public health seem to have been buried even as the governor praised CNX for allowing access to its wells to “make it possible for communities to understand the facts about natural gas development.”
Through its participation in the partnership, CNX said it was seeking to “create mutual trust which can serve as the basis for cooperation and real environmental and economic progress in the Commonwealth.”Bla bla bla translation = fuck you, your loved ones and your air, land, community and drinking water over, and over, and over and over.
Both hydrogen hub projects have been controversial, and activists say these U.S. Department of Energy-backed proposals are a “false solution” to climate change. The western Pennsylvania hydrogen hub, ARCH2, is supported by CNX Resources and other companies with ties to the fossil fuel industry.
It will mainly make “blue” hydrogen from natural gas and rely on carbon capture technology to reduce emissions from the production process.CCS does not work except in enhancing recovery of more oil and gas and resulting in more pollution. It has been proven over and over not to work as a pollution reducer and in fact, increases carbon pollution but it’s an excellent easy way to legally steal from the public interest. CCS is a slick con job designed by the oil and gas industry to keep profit raping while destroying earth’s livability and getting $billions in gifts.
MACH2, the eastern Pennsylvania proposal, says it will use water and nuclear power to make hydrogen. But it has been criticized for excluding from the planning process the environmental justice communities the hub is supposed to benefit. Since the Delaware Riverkeeper Network’s protest, MACH2 has hosted listening sessions for community members to weigh in and ask questions about the project.
Residents feel ‘used as bait’
Pennsylvanian activists see hydrogen and carbon capture as distractions from much-needed investments in clean energy sources like solar. In the clean energy transition, Pennsylvania is far behind.That’s the intent with hydrogen (no matter what fancy colour) and CCS, to get nowhere while giving polluter CEOs $billions.
It ranks 45th in the country for electricity generation from renewable energy, 50th for growth in renewable energy since 2013 and 50th in energy savings from efficiency improvements.
Pennsylvania ranked fourth for total carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. in 2021 and is one of the country’s highest emitters of methane, a greenhouse gas that is 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide.That’s because it’s a frac kingdom.
Whether any of this criticism will factor into Ms. Harris’ choice on a running mate remains to be seen. If Mr. Shapiro were running in a national Democratic primary, his record on climate and fracking would matter more from a political standpoint, Mr. Masur said. But in a general election, his middle-of-the-road positions on energy and the environment are likely to help him with swing voters.
If he joins the ticket or not, he is already seen as a persuasive voice for the Democrats in Pennsylvania.
A lifelong Republican, Dimock’s Mr. Kemble said he voted for Mr. Shapiro for attorney general and governor. But after everything that’s happened in Dimock since 2022, he will not vote for him again, and he plans to vote for Robert Kennedy Jr. in the presidential election regardless of Ms. Harris’ choice of running mate. He has also changed his voting registration from Republican to Independent.
“[Kennedy] cares about the environment. He cares about the people, and I’m sorry, but I don’t see that on either the Republican side or the Democratic side,” Mr. Kemble said. “I don’t see anything in there where they’re thinking about the people at all. They’re just looking at what they can do with industry.”except Kennedy is a more efficient liar than Shapiro and frac’ers combined.
Victoria Switzer, another Dimock resident who appeared with Mr. Shapiro at the press conference in 2022, said she would still support Ms. Harris even if she chooses Mr. Shapiro as her vice presidential pick. But she said her enthusiasm for Ms. Harris’s candidacy would be significantly dampened.
“This will ruin it for me. It will diminish the most joyous thing,” she said. “I have firsthand experience where I was used, betrayed, lied to, and used as bait. So my experience is personal.”
This story is published in partnership with Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment.
First Published: July 29, 2024, 8:32 a.m.
Updated: July 30, 2024, 4:06 a.m.
A few of the comments:
Anonymous 7967415144:
Ray Kimble is right. Shapiro has turned his back on Pennsylvanians impacted by fracking.
Funny, when I saw that David Masur, who calls himself an environmental advocate (PennEnvironment) was on the Governor’s working group I suspected that they would end up maintaining the status quo. Shameful to support a candidate with “middle-of-the-road positions on energy and the environment”. What a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Carl Hastings:
It’s Pennsylvania–the state’s history is all fossil fuel industry for a very long time so all of our politics is ‘polluted’ (pardon the pun) by that power structure history. One big weakness I hoped he might address is how we let gas producers still get away with dumping often toxic and radioactive well water as a ‘treatment’ on back roads. There is a law on this but it’s not enforced. Oil and gas are necessary (says this lifelong environmentalist type!) to the planet as we try to wean from them. They are important to our state economy, but…they need to be brought to heel on environmental, intentional environmental pollution issues. Pa needs to slowly diversify away from gas and oil. Also, for sure many people have good jobs from this but being overly dependent on oil and gas sets ANY region up for boom and bust economic situations—we can do better and cleaner in the long run. As for leaseholders—which my family is many times over—the pay is non too good for all the damage they do. 50 Dollars per quarter from 1 older well and 300 a year from some others—doesn’t make one wealthy.
Oakley Kovitch:
As a Jewish American I am embarrassed by ethics violator Shapiro and his environmental record. It’s sickening actually and should be troubling to anyone who cares one bit about the environment!
Kamala Harris will not ban fracking if she wins White House, campaign says, Harris, who had previously urged fracking ban, plans to highlight climate contrast between Democrats and Trump by Oliver Milman, 30 Jul 2024, The Guardian
Kamala Harris will not seek to ban fracking if she becomes US presidentDark money, rape religions and the oil and gas industry will never allow a USA frac ban or allow politicians yammering for more power to seek one, campaign officials have confirmed, with the de facto Democratic nominee expected to focus instead on aggressively promoting the stark contrast on the climate crisis between Joe Biden’s administration and Donald Trump.
Harris had previously, as a candidate for the 2020 presidential nomination, vowed to ban fracking, as well as back a Green New Deal, a progressive resolution to shift the US to 100% renewable energy, and new government dietary guidelines to encourage people to reduce their meat eating.
“I’m committed to passing a Green New Deal, creating clean jobs and finally putting an end to fracking once and for all,” Harris said during her unsuccessful campaign. She separately told CNN there is “no question” she favored a ban on fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, which involves using pumping liquids and sand into deep underground fissures to help dislodge more oil and gas.
Since becoming vice-president in 2021, however, Harris has followed the Biden administration approach that allows fracking, although the Environmental Protection Agency has drawn up rules to limit the emission of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that often escapes during fracking.
Trump has nevertheless sought to tie Harris to an anti-fracking stance, seeking to damage her position in key states such as Pennsylvania, a fracking hotspot. “She wants no fracking,” the former president told supporters in Charlotte, North Carolina, last week. “You’re going to be paying a lot of money. You’re going to be paying so much. You’re going to say, ‘bring back Trump’.”Trump is a spoiled rotten baby and so fucking unbelievably misogynistic, racist, stupid, cruel and dishonest, it’s no surprise he has so many in his cult worshipping him and why he chose JD Vance – hidden deep down inside, 99% of humans are JD Vance thanks to the patriarchy and rape religions and selfish nature of humans.
Trump’s claims on fracking are incorrect, according to the Harris campaign. “Trump’s false claims about fracking bans are an obvious attempt to distract from his own plans to enrich oil and gas executives at the expense of the middle class,” said a campaign spokesman, who confirmed Harris did not support a ban.
Fracking has long been controversial due to concerns over pollution of local water supplies, and several green groups have called for a national ban. California is in the final stages of implementing a ban on new fracking in the state, with Governor Gavin Newsom saying it is needed to “create a healthier future for our children”.
“It’s disappointing to hear that Vice-President Harris say that she no longer supports a ban on fracking,” said Mitch Jones, deputy director of Food & Water Action. “Still, there are massive differences between her positions on key climate and environmental issues and those espoused by [Donald] Trump.”
Highlighting those differences between Harris and Trump on climate and providing sharper messaging around the Biden-Harris administration’s accomplishments such as the landmark Inflation Reduction Act will be a key part of the vice-president’s campaign, according to one leading Democratic strategist.
“Kamala Harris has supported Biden’s overall climate and energy policy and I expect her to continue that, perhaps with a more aggressive approach to super-pollutants such as methane,” said Paul Bledsoe, a former climate adviser to Bill Clinton’s White House and an environmental policy expert.
“I hope she leans in on how the US has to compete in clean-energy technologies that are the key to the future and reducing consumer prices. If she does that she will be politically successful, because Trump’s electric vehicle demonization, for example, is preposterous.
“There’s a huge opportunity for Harris. Biden was unable to articulate the case, and the debate was just a massive opportunity lost on climate because Trump’s positions are indefensible.”
A handful of environmental groups have now formally endorsed Harris, with several attempting to push her towards more ambitious policies amid a summer of new heat records. On Monday, about 150 young people organized by the Sunrise Movement rallied outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters to urge Harris to put forward a “comprehensive plan on the economy and climate”.
The action came a day after the most high-profile climate endorsement yet for Harris, who is expected to clinch her party’s formal nomination at next month’s Democratic convention. Harris is the “kind of climate champion we need in the White House”, according to Al Gore, the former US vice-president turned climate advocate.
“With so much at stake in this year’s election – from strengthening democracy in the US and abroad, to expanding opportunity for the American people, to accelerating climate action – I’m proud to endorse Kamala Harris for president.”
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