Harris touts oil production during 2024 run after saying companies need to 'pay the price' for climate change

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing disapproval for touting lipid accumulation nether the Biden medication aft becoming the Democratic nominee, portion antecedently calling for specified companies to "pay the price" for climate change.

During her 2019 statesmanlike bid, Harris told voters that she was successful favour of the Department of Justice investigating lipid companies, specified arsenic Chevron and Shell, for "profiting off" pollution. 

"These large lipid companies, these fossil substance companies, look, you should beryllium truly prepared to look astatine a superior good oregon beryllium charged with a crime. Because here’s the thing, these large lipid companies and these fossil substance companies person been making truthful overmuch wealth and profiting disconnected of this pollution," Harris said.

Yet, aft becoming the Democratic nominee, the vice president began touting the "largest summation successful home lipid accumulation successful history" nether the Biden-Harris administration.

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks astatine a run lawsuit connected Thursday, Oct. 10, connected the Gila River Indian Community preservation successful Chandler, Arizona. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

"My presumption is that we person got to put successful divers sources of vigor truthful we trim our reliance connected overseas oil. We person had the largest summation successful home lipid accumulation successful past due to the fact that of an attack that recognizes that we cannot implicit trust connected overseas oil," Harris said during the 1 and lone statesmanlike statement against erstwhile President Trump successful plaything authorities Pennsylvania.

"I americium arrogant that arsenic vice president implicit the past 4 years, we person invested a trillion dollars successful a cleanable vigor system portion we person besides accrued home state accumulation to historical levels," Harris said.

Fox News Digital asked the Harris run whether she inactive supported investigating large lipid for pollution, but did not person a response.

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CNN called retired Harris for flipping connected the contented since becoming the Democratic nominee.

Vice President Kamala Harris listens during her statement with erstwhile President Trump successful Philadelphia connected Sept. 10, 2024. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)

"This is simply a precise crisp crook from wherever Harris erstwhile stood connected this contented not truthful precise agelong ago," big Erin Burnett said connected Wednesday.

Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee Gov. Tim Walz, who signed a measure successful 2023 to mandate utilities nutrient 100% carbon-free powerfulness by 2040, echoed her astir caller stance connected the issue. 

"America’s producing much earthy state and much lipid than astatine immoderate clip successful our history," Walz said during a caller interrogation with WGAL 8.

The U.S. Oil and Gas Association (OGA) slammed Harris' resurfaced remark from the debate, saying Harris had "nothing to do" with home lipid accumulation growth.

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"In conscionable 4 years, you and POTUS created the azygous worst regulatory and legislative situation successful our industry's 160-year history. You've enactment into spot 250 abstracted actions designed to enactment america retired of business. You wanted to enactment our CEOs successful jail, confiscate our superior and forestall our investors from getting immoderate return," OGA wrote successful a station connected X formerly Twitter, connected Wednesday. "And successful spite of each that – we worked astir you, implicit you and person bushed your team. Now you privation to instrumentality recognition for what we did successful spite of you. Not gonna fto it happen."

A Valero Energy Corp. refinery successful Corpus Christi, Texas, Feb. 19, 2021. (Eddie Seal/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Representatives from the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) said Harris' acknowledgment of an lipid accumulation boost means that a beardown U.S. lipid and earthy state manufacture is bully for the U.S. economy.

"This predetermination season, Vice President Harris is taking recognition for accumulation records due to the fact that she knows we request much energy, not less. Despite her policies and remarks derived from environmentalists' talking points astir shutting down our industry, I judge Harris besides knows American lipid and earthy state producers person the cleanest lipid and earthy state operations successful the satellite and adhere to the highest biology and information standards," Jeff Eshelman, IPAA president and CEO, told Fox News Digital. "The United States needs the energy, and we should not trust connected overseas adversaries arsenic the Vice President said." 

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Harris precocious shifted her stance connected fracking, coming retired successful enactment of the method this rhythm aft saying that "there's nary question I'm successful favour of banning fracking" during a CNN municipality hallway successful 2020.