Harris slammed for hiring advisor with ties to dark money group pushing gas stove ban: 'Par for the course'

Energy advocates are knocking Vice President Kamala Harris for bringing connected a apical run advisor with ties to a arguable biology radical down the effort to prohibition state stoves.

O.H. Skinner, enforcement manager of the nonprofit Alliance for Consumers, told Fox News Digital that "this is sadly par for the course."

"For years the near has been focused connected assaulting consumers and the things successful their homes. That has included a litany of Biden-Harris regulations and mandates," helium said. "From ‘green’ regulations connected dishwashers and washing machines to EV mandates and bans connected state stoves, a Harris-Walz medication volition nary uncertainty proceed to eviscerate user prime and unit Americans to wage much for mundane products and household appliances that bash a worse job."

American vigor accumulation is simply a captious contented this election, particularly successful the largest plaything state, Pennsylvania. The Harris run has made overtures to vigor producers and consumers, saying that her medication would not prohibition fracking but would trim vigor accumulation costs portion investing successful cleanable vigor solutions.

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Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and caller Climate Engagement Director Camila Thorndike. (Getty Images)

However, conservatives are knocking her for hiring Camila Thorndike, who antecedently worked for the acheronian wealth clime activistic radical Rewiring America arsenic the campaign’s "climate engagement director." Before joining the run successful September, Updike worked successful aggregate positions astatine Rewiring America betwixt precocious 2022 and past month, according to her Legistorm profile. 

Rewiring America is an biology advocacy radical that made headlines successful 2022 for its propulsion to prohibition state stoves.

The radical does not record national taxation forms since it is sponsored by the Windward Fund, a nonprofit that is portion of the billion-dollar acheronian wealth network managed by the Washington, D.C.-based Arabella Advisors.

The lone nationalist publication to Rewiring America is simply a 2020 assistance worthy $300,000 from the left-wing nonprofit Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

The radical was founded by Alex Laskey, Saul Griffith and Ari Matusiak successful 2020. The 3 founders person each pursued assorted wind, solar, electrification and vigor ratio ventures, immoderate of which person netted them millions of dollars successful buyouts oregon received important national funding. They person simultaneously advocated for policies benefiting those ventures done the nonprofit.

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Among its cardinal objectives, Rewiring America has maintained that Americans indispensable broadly electrify their homes to combat clime alteration and has advocated for monolithic spending connected clime programs.

In an October interrogation with Politico, Thorndike indicated that Hurricanes Helene and Milton were caused by clime change. She told Politico that Harris is "not promoting enlargement [of fossil substance drilling]. She’s conscionable said that they wouldn’t prohibition fracking," contempt Harris repeatedly supporting a fracking prohibition during her failed 2019 statesmanlike campaign.

Camila Thorndike, the manager of argumentation programs astatine the nonprofit clime radical Rewiring America, is among a increasing fig of radical who person begun to origin clime alteration into their decisions astir whether to person children, Nov. 7, 2022 successful Washington, D.C. (Jahi Chikwendiu)

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The clime advisor has a agelong past of arguable comments, including accusing the lipid and state manufacture of "ecoterrorism" and calling for Americans successful the fossil substance manufacture to "consider putting their talents elsewhere" and halt "continuing to navigator the planet," according to a caller Washington Free Beacon report. 

She besides previously said she is hesitant to person children due to the fact that of clime alteration threats, saying it's an "ethical question that keeps maine up astatine night."

Jason Isaac, a erstwhile Texas typical and CEO of the American Energy Institute, told Fox News Digital that Harris’ determination to bring connected Thorndike "underscores her administration’s hostility towards American vigor sources that powerfulness our system and enactment millions of jobs."

"If her campaign’s unit is immoderate indication, we tin expect Harris to proceed pushing policies that harm American vigor independency and people the livelihoods of countless workers," helium said. "This isn’t conscionable astir state stoves. It’s a coordinated effort to undermine affordable, reliable vigor that Americans beryllium on."

Rewiring America did not respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

Fox News' Thomas Catenacci and Aubrie Spady contributed to this report.

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