Left-wing climate groups silent after Harris campaign drops millions on private jet flights since July

FIRST ON FOX: Environmental groups which have been vocal in opposition to climate change have been silent when requested about Vice President Kamala Harris‘ campaign dropping practically $7 million on private jet flights since July.

Harris spent practically $4 million on private flights in simply six weeks beginning in July, after calling on Americans to vary their habits to curb climate change, a earlier Fox News Digital assessment discovered.

The newest assessment of recent filings with the Federal Election Commission reveals that Harris spent a further $3.1 million on private planes in September alone. 

Fox News Digital requested environmental groups, a number of which have protested private jet use, about Harris’ private flights however didn’t obtain a response from any of them. The groups included Sunrise Movement, the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace, Earth Island Institute, Earth Justice, Environmental Defense Fund, Nature Friends International and International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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Then-Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris exits a private aircraft at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport on Oct. 30, 2020 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Montinique Monroe)

Members of the Sunrise Movement held a protest at East Hampton Airport in 2023 to forestall planes from taking off and touchdown in opposition to private air journey.

Greenpeace has additionally slammed those that have interaction within the upscale type of journey.

“The super rich proudly accelerate the #ClimateCrisis, showing off their planet-wrecking lifestyle. Let’s stop this reckless behavior,” Greenpeace writes on their web site. “Private jets are the epitome of social and climate injustice: a supremely privileged minority flying like there’s no tomorrow without any restriction.”

Harris used two completely different corporations for her private flights in September: the Private Jet Services Group (PJS) and Advanced Aviation Team.

PJS presents a variety of providers from a light-weight jet for groups of as much as seven passengers touring as much as 535 miles per hour, or an airliner that accommodates 150 to 350 passengers.

The PJS web site claims the group is America’s first carbon-neutral private aviation firm.

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Sunrise Movement protesters collect close to Vice President Kamala Harris’ Brentwood, California, residence, calling on her to induce President Biden to declare a climate emergency on Sunday, April 14, 2024. (Robert Gauthier)

“PJS has implemented a reforestation program to sequester 100% of the carbon emissions released by our clients’ flights. The PJS Carbon Neutrality Pledge establishes Private Jet Services as America’s First Carbon Neutral Private Aviation Company,” the web site reads.

Harris additionally used Advanced Aviation, which presents plane starting from eight-seater turboprop jets for journeys of as much as three hours to 18-seater extremely long-range jets.

When requested whether or not the campaign weighs the private jet carbon footprint earlier than taking the flights, the Harris campaign didn’t reply to Fox News Digital by press time.

The National Library of Medicine experiences that private aviation is “the most energy-intense form of air travel” and that gas use per passenger varies, “but [is] estimated to be on the order of 10 to 20 times higher than the average fuel use per passenger hour for a commercial flight.”

Harris has beforehand known as climate change an “existential threat” and mentioned that human habits contribute to the difficulty.

Then-Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris exits a private aircraft at Raleigh Durham International Airport on Sept. 28, 2020 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Sara D. Davis)

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“There’s no question we have to be practical. But being practical also recognizes that climate change is an existential threat to us as human beings,” Harris informed CNN in 2019. “Being practical recognizes that greenhouse gas emissions are threatening our air and threatening the planet and that it is well within our capacity as human beings to change our behaviors in a way that we can reduce its effects. That’s practical.”

The 2024 presidential campaign just isn’t the primary time Harris has used private jets to hit the campaign path. In 2019, Harris’ campaign spent lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} on flights chartered by Air Partner Inc., which payments itself as a “World-class” private plane constitution firm that gives “over 7,000 private jets.”

“We can give you access to every type of private jet, from very light to global cabin jets,” the web site reads. “You have the freedom to choose the most suitable aircraft for your journey, whether you’re flying for business or leisure.”