Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will meet Tuesday for their first debate, and there’s a good chance their energy and environmental agendas will come up.
The pressure will be on both candidates at the matchup in Philadelphia in the closely fought race for president. Their answers could illuminate their plans for office while highlighting stark differences between the two.
Harris, who became the Democrats’ nominee after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July, has thus far said little about energy and climate change on the trail, apart from promising to defend Biden’s agenda like the landmark climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. She did release a broad policy platform Monday, but it’s light on specifics.
Harris has flipped on several key energy and climate policy positions she had in 2019, including on whether she’d support a ban on hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas.
