Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were mostly aligned on climate issues, although the California senator, in part because of her office, offered more concrete support for the Green New Deal plan. She signed a resolution written by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2019.
When Trump challenged him in his debate last week, Biden said he opposed the Green New Deal. And while it is true that he has not embraced it, his climate plan has been (cautiously) applauded by major environmental groups. “Biden believes that the Green New Deal is a crucial framework for addressing the climate challenges we face,” according to his campaign website, which touts his plan as a “Clean Energy Revolution.”
Both Harris and Biden support rejoining the Paris climate accord, ending fossil fuel extraction on public lands and putting a price on carbon emissions as part of broader political visions.
But they differed a bit, during elementary school, on fracking. Harris said he wanted to ban the practice, starting on federal land. Biden has said he wants to limit it, but rejects a ban in favor of stopping new or additional fracking on federal land. “I am not banning fracking. Let me say it again: I’m not banning fracking, ”Biden said in a speech in Pittsburgh this summer. “It doesn’t matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me.”
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