Topics in the News: Plastic Waste
Kamala Harris on Environment
: Sep 5, 2024
2019: ban plastic straws; 2024: no longer her position
When Kamala Harris ran for president in 2020, she said plastic straws should be banned. [This week], her campaign says that's no longer her position.Why it matters: Banning plastic straws to protect the environment and marine life is the latest
progressive issue on which Harris and her campaign have either declined to comment or changed her position.
Zoom in: Many parts of the country have banned plastic straws as concerns have grown about plastic pollution in oceans and waterways.
Flashback: During a CNN town hall in 2019, Harris was asked whether plastic straws should be banned: "I think we should," she said. "We do need to ban the plastic" straws, she added, saying that paper straws needed to be improved.
Axios asked
Harris' current campaign if she still supports that idea. "She doesn't support banning plastic straws," a campaign official told Axios. "She joked about how crappy paper straws are and the need to come up with better eco-friendly alternatives."
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Source: Axios.com on 2024 Presidential Hopefuls
Donald Trump on Principles & Values
: Jul 12, 2024
Harris is Biden 2.0, and hid Crooked Joe's decline
Any hopes that having Kamala Harris waiting in the wings would calm Democrat nerves has obviously failed. Why? Because Kamala Harris is Joe Biden 2.0.She was the copilot on some of Biden's most egregious failures as Biden's "border
czar." She is anti-worker. Harris embraces pro-China electric vehicle mandates, wants to eliminate the Trump middle-class tax cuts, supports the socialist Green New Deal, and wants to ban everything from plastic straws to fracking to
offshore drilling.She is a liar. For years, Democrats have been perpetrating a massive fraud as they willfully hid Crooked Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline from the public--and no one has been more central to the coverup than
Harris. Team Trump has documented numerous times Harris lied directly to the American people about Biden's condition.Kamala Harris' radical policies and her part in one of the greatest coverups in American history have disqualified her from office.
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Source: Trump Presidential Campaign 2024 press release: "Biden 2.0"
Kamala Harris on Environment
: Sep 4, 2019
Ban plastic straws & bags; limit single-use plastic
Q: We're told that there'll be more tons of plastic than of fish in the oceans by 2050. What will you do as president to drastically curb reliance on single-use plastics?HARRIS: Everyone needs to see the images of what these plastic bottles and
straws and everything are doing to our oceans. [The solution] is about one, creating the incentives. We banned plastic bags in California--people had to get used to it.
Q: So would you ban the single-use plastic?
HARRIS: I think we have to create
incentives. Look, those little plastic grocery bags when I was growing up--we used them as garbage bags. Then we didn't have those anymore so we used paper bags as garbage bags--we can adapt.
Q: Do you ban plastic straws?
HARRIS: I think we
should, yes. I'm going to be honest--it's really difficult to drink out of a paper straw. Let's encourage innovation and I think we could do a little bit better than some of those flimsy plastic straws but we do need to ban the plastic.
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Source: CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall marathon (10 Democrats)
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