Election: VP nominee Kamala Harris has a particular climate-change agenda: environmental justice
If presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s climate-change policy is, by some accounts, too broad to make implementation a surety, the focus of his newly named vice presidential pick may recast the party’s green agenda moving forward.Senator Kamala Harris, who Biden tapped to be his running mate on Tuesday, has grown increasingly firm in her commitment to a particular angle when it comes to man-made climate change: environmental justice.Her addition to the top of the Democrats’ ticket for November comes just days after she released new legislation, the Climate Equity Act. In it, she and co-sponsors aim to ensure that any environmental regulation or legislation would be rated based on its impact on low-income communities, similar to a Congressional Budget Office score.She ...