PHOENIX — Vice President Kamala Harris visited Arizona for the first time since entering the role on Thursday to tout the administration’s clean energy initiative.
Harris attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the Ten West Link transmission line in Tonopah.
The transmission line will add a significant amount of new power grid infrastructure connecting Southern California to the Southwest desert.
“It will deliver electricity from wind and from solar farms out here in the desert to big cities like Phoenix and Los Angeles and San Diego and to rural communities like Blythe,” Harris said.
The event highlighted the ongoing efforts from the Biden-Harris administration to achieve a net-zero carbon economy by 2050.
“This electricity will be clean electricity. Solar panels and wind turbines do not produce toxic fumes that poison our air or dangerous…