To the ire of the Trump administration, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo all pledged not to finance any drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Treasury Department has vowed to take a "serious look" at these banks, but questions have also been raised about the validity of the Administration's environmental review of the potential harm drilling will inflict on wildlife.

"Last decade was Earth's hottest on record, exposing grim reality of climate change"

California is on fire right now. Last year, wildfires devastated Australia and deadly heat waves gripped Europe (30,000 deaths), Japan (18,000 hospitalized), Pakistan, and India. According to the American Meteorological Society's new report, 2019 was one of the warmest years on record, sea levels have risen to a record high and CO2 levels in ice cores were the highest ever measured, dating back 800,000 years.

Harris, an original co-sponsor of the Green New Deal and of a new bill entitled the Climate Equity Act, would make environmental justice a priority of a potential Biden-Harris administration. As AG of San Francisco 15 years ago, Harris created an environmental justice unit. Biden's $2 trillion climate plan allocates 40% of clean energy spending to disadvantaged communities.