In this 2024 election, as in any election season, all of the candidates are throwing elbows at each other jockeying for camera time to pronounce what their agenda will be should they be elected — except Kamala Harris, who manages to be an Olympic-level master of talking a lot without saying anything. But she has tried to spin herself as a climate, fossil-fuel moderate, backing away from her earlier positions on things like banning fracking.
But when politicians start blowing smoke up our fourth points of contact in the course of their campaigns, it’s important to watch what they do, and not just what they say. So let’s take a look at one Camila Thorndike, the Harris-Walz campaign’s climate engagement director — whatever a climate engagement director is. At any rate, Thorndike’s record on energy issues couldn’t be farther from moderate — and she would be helping set energy policy…
