On the campaign trail for the 2020 election, the Democratic candidates for president, including then-U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, outlined in detail their plans to combat climate change — with Joe Biden even vowing to halt oil and gas drilling on federal lands.
Now, Harris has been more vague during her month as her party’s presidential nominee — mentioning climate change only in passing, offering no specific plans yet to reduce climate-altering emissions, and failing to call out the role of fossil fuel production in accelerating the global crisis.
