With Election Day just a few weeks away, the one thing that is certain about Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ energy policy is that…no one is certain about where she really stands.
EID and media outlets alike have highlighted Harris’ marked shift from her first presidential campaign in 2019, which saw an embrace of far-left energy positions such as banning all fracking and eliminating the filibuster to pass the Green New Deal, to her current embrace of record oil production.
Media scrutiny has intensified this week, with CNN’s Erin Burnett calling out Harris’ “very sharp turn” on energy positions. One of these core pivots, as reported by CNN’s KFile founding member Andrew Kaczynski this week, is her previous pledge to prosecute oil companies over emissions:
“Archived material from Harris’s 2020 campaign found more than a dozen mentions of prosecuting Big Oil either for pollution or climate change. Citing climate change as an urgent threat, Harris said aggressive action was imminently needed.”
So which Harris will voters get, should she win the election? Steven Winberg, the former acting U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Energy, wrote this week in the Washington Times that the answer could come in a forthcoming Solicitor General brief requested by the Supreme Court on the viability of Honolulu’s climate lawsuit.
Read the full story at EIDClimate.org.
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