Democrats’ VP pick Tim Walz welcomed as climate champion by green advocates

Governor Tim Walz signed one of the country’s strongest green energy bills into law last year. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP

Tim Walz, tapped as Vice-President Kamala Harris’s running mate on Tuesday, may not be a household name, but the Minnesota governor is well known as a climate champion in green advocacy circles.

“Like Vice-President Harris, Governor Walz knows that climate change is the existential threat of our time,” the Sierra Club executive director, Ben Jealous, said in a statement. “The Harris-Walz ticket is one that understands the fight before us.”