Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) cautioned against the worsening climate crisis, slamming President Donald Trump‘s pro-fossil fuel stance and his claims that climate change was a hoax.
Bernie Sanders Points to Record-Breaking Temperatures
In a post on X on Thursday, the Vermont Independent said that there had been record-breaking temperatures across the board, as well as Europe’s heatwave, which set “all-time heat records in seven countries” and “killed more than 10,000 people.”
Sanders then said that the Western U.S. “saw its warmest winter on record” and the country as a whole experienced the “worst spring drought in recorded history,” adding that the heatwaves had “exposed hundreds of millions of Americans to dangerous levels of heat.”
TRUMP’S LIES, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 16, 2026
The last eleven years have been the hottest eleven years on record. The last three years have been the hottest three years on record. Europe just saw its worst heat wave in recorded history that set all-time heat records…
Wildfires, Big Oil
He also pointed to wildfires in Canada and the U.S., as well as poor air quality in multiple cities. “It is not normal for Detroit, Minneapolis, and Chicago to have some of the most dangerous air quality in the world,” Sanders said. “Climate change is not a hoax. It is reality,” he added.
The Vermont Independent also reiterated his criticism of Trump favoring oil companies, accusing the President of prioritizing “short-term profit” for his “billionaire friends in Big Oil” over the future of America’s “kids and grandkids.”
Bernie Sanders Touts Clean Energy
Sanders asked people to “reject…Trump’s lies” about the Climate Crisis and the “greed of the fossil fuel industry” by transitioning to clean energy. “When we do that, we cut carbon emissions, reduce energy bills, and create millions of good union jobs,” he said.
Notably, a recent report by Minneapolis-based nonprofit BlueGreen Alliance said that the Trump administration’s anti-clean-energy stance had caused nearly $83 billion in losses to the clean-energy, manufacturing and industrial sectors.
Meanwhile, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) launched the MyFirstEV program, offering an instant $3,500 discount on new electric vehicles bought by first-time EV buyers, as well as a $1,750 discount on used EVs.
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