Article 6QN7G Climate experts lament Harris’s vow to keep fracking in debate with ‘walking oil spill’ Trump

Climate experts lament Harris’s vow to keep fracking in debate with ‘walking oil spill’ Trump

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Oliver Milman
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Harris has a progressive record on climate but indicated a shift, probably to assuage voters in swing states

Kamala Harris stridently backed new fracking and expanded US gas production in comments that raised eyebrows among some environmentalists as, yet again, the unfolding climate crisis was largely overlooked during a set piece presidential debate.

Harris, in a televised debate with Donald Trump on Tuesday night in Philadelphia, rebuffed the former president's claim that she will end fracking on day one" if elected by touting booming levels of drilling during her term as vice-president, in which US oil and gas production has hit record highs.

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