House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is eagerly pushing a new conservative effort to combat climate change. But not everyone in the GOP is racing to embrace the plan just yet — and it's already facing blowback from some groups on the right
“Look, this is an important issue, particularly for millennials, particularly for young people and it should be for all of us,” said Republican Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia. “You know, as is the case in most issues, we do have some who aren't onboard and I understand that. And at the same time, as a group and as a majority, we are in favor of market-based solutions.”
GOP Reps. Garret Graves of Louisiana, Greg Walden of Oregon and Bruce Westerman of Arkansas made presentations in January at that conference-wide meeting, and then Graves pitched the conservative Republican Study Committee last week.the package Wednesday, it wasn’t a splashy press conference: it was a pen-and-pad with policy reporters and seven Republican members, reflecting the more methodical and in-depth approach preferred by McCarthy.
“There’s some questions that people have raised with me about the sequestration sections. I’m not against sequestration, but I have to make sure it’s worded correctly,” said Rep. Morgan Griffith , referring to technologies that trap and bury carbon dioxide before it enters the atmosphere. In contrast, Democrats on the Energy and Commerce and Natural Resources committees have lined up behind ambitious plans to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and 2040, respectively, which would require drastically reducing use of fossil fuels.
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