How Kamala Harris would address climate change

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Politico

California Sen. Kamala Harris on Wednesday released her plan for addressing climate change, calling for $10 trillion in public and private funding to create a carbon-neutral economy and invoking her past as a prosecutor to target companies that are driving greenhouse gas emissions.

“As president, I will hold polluters accountable for the damage they inflict upon our environment and set us on a path to a 100 percent clean economy that creates millions of good-paying jobs,” Harris said in a statement. “This crisis demands urgency and boldness, and as president, I will act.”

Harris' plan also leans on environmental justice principles, which aim to reverse the inequities that have seen poor and minority populations that bear the brunt of environmental pollution. Her proposal lands the same day as a CNN town hall where ten leading Democratic contenders, including Harris, will describe their plans for combating the problem.

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It calls for promoting environmental justice for communities through massive investments in areas like drinking water infrastructure and ensuring that climate rules benefit low-income communities.

It also seeks to end subsidies for the fossil fuel industry; boost federal government enforcement to ensure companies are complying with regulations; require companies to “appropriately assess and disclose risks from climate change;” and implement a “progressively increasing fee” on carbon pollution.