Climate change and energy policy is slated to be one of the topics that Democrats focus on as they make their pitch to mobilize the party for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Climate and energy policy will be featured on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.
Before Vice President Harris speaks Thursday, the evening’s event is expected to include videos and speakers to highlight climate policy from the Biden administration and discuss job creation. The scheduled programming was shared with NPR by a source familiar with the planning who is not authorized to speak publicly.
The featured speakers include Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who is the first Native American to be tapped in to lead that department, Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost, and John Russell, who is among the content creators at the convention. Russell, who has more than 180,000 followers on TikTok, is expected to talk about his home of West Virginia and the benefits of the “clean energy economy.”
Although climate change was not a major focus over the first three nights of the convention, it did come up in several speeches. The planned attention to the issue Thursday signals Democrats see climate and energy as something to campaign on.
