House GOP Meets To Talk About How To Talk About Global Warming ("Innovation!" "Carbon Capture!"
House Republican lawmakers held a closed-door strategy session over their approach to climate change on Thursday, as they face intensifying pressure from younger voters to address the environmental threat. The huddle was spurred by a recognition among some Republican leaders that the party has ceded the debate to Democrats.
“There’s been a lot of credibility given to some really crazy and dangerous and irresponsible ideas, and we’ve got to make sure that we are working to inform and educate the public about the dangers of some of these policies,” Representative Garret Graves of Louisiana, the top Republican on the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, said in an interview.
Graves addressed his colleagues at the session, along with Representative Greg Walden of Oregon, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The meeting came amid polling showing young Americans want politicians to tackle climate change and warnings from GOP strategists that if Republicans don’t address the issue, they could alienate an entire generation of voters.
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Some environmentalists remained skeptical. “Congressional Republicans and Donald Trump just blocked a package of clean energy tax credits from being included in the year-end tax and budget deal,” said Sierra Club Global Climate Policy Director John Coequyt. “That was a serious and limited solution they failed to support, but they are suddenly serious a few weeks later after decades of climate denial?"
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https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/republicans-plot-climate-strategy-amid-growing-political-risk
