Christopher Schuler, christopher.schuler@sierraclub.org
Washington, DC – Today, Donald Trump announced that he has selected fellow climate denier Sen. JD Vance as his running mate in the 2024 election.
Vance, a freshman Senator of Ohio, once said the climate crisis was “created” in order to “justify democratic donors.” Since arriving in Congress, Vance has doubled down on this foolish approach, focusing his efforts on gutting the Environmental Protection Agency, attempting to defund the Inflation Reduction Act that has created hundreds of thousands of jobs, and raking in more than $300,000 in donations from the dirty fossil fuel industry in his last campaign alone.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous released the following statement:
“Time and again, JD Vance has gone out of his way to minimize the very real climate crisis we face and cast doubts on the human behavior driving it. Now, Vance joins a ticket that has sought to sell out Appalachian communities by pushing for the expansion of dangerous fracking and associated infrastructure like the Mountain Valley Pipeline, as well as by seeking to defund vital Inflation Reduction Act investments that are targeted to support jobs in energy communities like the ones he claims to represent. Donald Trump was the worst president ever for clean air, clean water, and protecting a livable future. With the selection of JD Vance as his VP pick, that climate-denying legacy would only worsen in a second term. Voters should reject this ticket and the reckless policies it would bring with it.”
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