Environmental campaigners have slammed Donald Trump’s pick for running mate, Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance, saying that he is a climate change denier and a “Big Oil sell-out” who will strongly support continued fossil fuel production. Trump announced on Monday that he had picked Vance, 39, once a critic of the former president but now a staunch supporter, to run for vice president on the GOP ballot in the November election.
Vance not only flip-flopped on supporting Trump, he flip-flopped on climate. He went from expressing concern about climate change before running for the Senate, to voting to gut EPA protections and denying that there even is a climate change crisis.” “J.D. Vance will sell out to the highest bidder, whether that’s Trump or the fossil fuel industry,” O’Hanlon said, adding that “J.D. Vance will empower Donald Trump to enact even worse damage on our planet in a second Trump administration.