5 Climate Questions for the Candidates Ahead of the Presidential Debate | Here’s what the Times climate team would ask Harris and Trump about climate change, energy policy and the environment.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The United States is currently the world’s biggest producer of both oil and gas, the burning of which are the main contributors to global warming. Would your administration continue working to expand fossil fuel production, or is it time for the U.S. to start moving away from fossil fuels?

  Harris has walked back her 2019 pledge to ban fracking, a key way of producing oil and gas. Her softening of this stance reflects economic concerns. While the Biden-Harris administration has worked to promote clean energy, it has also benefited from an economy buoyed by record fossil fuel production. Besides fracking, another key area of focus is liquefied natural gas exports. The Biden administration said it would ban new liquefied natural gas export permits, but that decision is being challenged in court.

  Trump’s position is less nuanced. He has said he would unburden the oil and gas industry of regulations they find onerous and promote an aggressive agenda of oil and gas drilling and exploration. In a direct appeal to the industry, he told a group of fossil fuel executives they should donate $1 billion to his campaign because so he could roll back environmental regulations if elected. He also said one of the first actions he would take if re-elected would be to sharply expand oil and gas production.

  trump broke production levels, Biden broke those records, and Kamala cast the tie breaking vote to expand fracking…

  There’s no reason to believe she won’t also break records unless everyone makes some fucking noise not just up to the election but for the next four years

  Corporations won’t stop lobbying, voters can’t stop using our voices.

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