(CNN) Sen. Kamala Harris is leaning in on her record as a California prosecutor who sought to punish polluters in her new $10 trillion climate plan, which aims for a carbon-neutral US economy by 2045.

The proposal, released to CNN ahead of the network's climate town hall Wednesday night , centers on widely shared Democratic beliefs of investing in zero-emission transportation and carbon-neutral electricity. Like other candidates, Harris pledges to reverse the Trump administration's rollbacks of federal environmental rules. But the California Democrat also leans on her record of punishing polluters as the state's attorney general and San Francisco's district attorney.

In a statement released with her plan, Harris says her presidential climate proposal is "about putting people first, justice for communities that have been harmed and accountability for those responsible. It provides the pathway to engage all Americans to tackle the climate crisis, build a clean economy that creates millions of family-sustaining jobs, and guarantee every person's right to breathe clean air and drink clean water."

The proposal includes ways to raise revenue, such as creating a pollution fee and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, but the campaign did not further specify how it would be paid for.

The plan builds on a number of Harris' proposed Senate bills.

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