Kamala Harris’s environmental deceptions

Greenaction leads one of countless protests over the past almost 30 years against the deadly pollution that sickens Bayview Hunters Point. by Ann Garrison Kamala Harris’s vaunted “environmental justice unit” prosecuted only the most trivial violations in San Francisco’s toxic Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. Richard Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency and the strongest environmental protections the US had ever seen in response to the mass movements of the 1960s. After Nixon, environmental laws gradually improved until Bill Clinton’s administration started rolling them back, especially through global “free trade” deals like NAFTA and those of the WTO, putting the environmental movement on the defensive. Every president since Clinton, Democrat or Republican, has successively worsened environmental protections. Obama expanded fossil fuel production more than any other president in US history, and Biden continued to expand it even more than Trump had. There’s little reason to think that Kamala Harris would be different, and she’s already reversed her opposition to fracking. I spoke to Bradley Angel, executive director of San Francisco-based Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, about her environmental record as San Francisco district attorney and California state attorney general. ANN GARRISON: Bradley Angel, it would be hard to find anything...