Harris heads to rapidly draining Lake Mead to make the case for Biden's climate priorities
CNN
Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Lake Mead in Nevada on Monday to make the case for Congress to fund "the largest investment in climate resilience in US history" by passing President Joe Biden's sweeping economic agenda, according to a White House official.
Harris' climate-focused event comes as the President's climate proposals inside the social safety next expansion package face a perilous future following reports that Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has pushed back strongly on the Clean Electricity Performance Program, the cornerstone climate policy in the package.
Lake Mead, the country's largest reservoir, is experiencing a shocking climate change-fueled drought and is rapidly draining as CNN has previously reported. The Colorado River reservoir, which is just east of Las Vegas on the Nevada-Arizona border, is poised to become the focal point of one of the country's most significant climate crises: water shortages in the West.