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</div><div style="">hours after declaring that 'we're not going to fix' the uniquely American problem of pervasive gun violence in the wake of Monday's mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, United States Congressman Tim Burchett (R-Tennessee) suggested on Tuesday that renewable sources of energy are ineffective and inefficient wastes of time and money:<div id="story_page_incontent_p2_target" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5155643920455169" data-ad-slot="6339868799" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px; display: block;" /></div>The Biden administration, and unfortunately the Democrats in Congress keep pushing these Green New Deal-style agendas. Honestly, Mr. Speaker, they just don't work. There hasn't been a new development in solar in over twenty years, and windmills are just what they are. Windmills. The wind doesn't always blow, and the Sun doesn't always shine in East Tennessee, and I'm sure that's the way it is across this great nation and it's costing Americans way too much. We're done with all this nonsense, Mr. Speaker.Social media tore into Burchett over his remarks.READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/house-gop-2659662782/" target="self" title="view post: House GOP’s energy package slammed as harmful 'giveaway to Big Oil'" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">House GOP’s energy package slammed as harmful 'giveaway to Big Oil'</a><a href="https://twitter.com/IWasBornIn1975/status/1640841895097298944?s=20" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">.H.Ɔ.ꟼ</a>: "Did this guy take a class in dumb?"<a href="https://twitter.com/AdrienneLaw/status/1640842534468587521?s=20" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Adrienne Lawrence, Esq.</a>: "Did he run on a platform of ineptitude? Between his 'nothing is going to change' about mass shootings this morning and now this, I'm astonished."<a href="https://twitter.com/Jedseph/status/1640841888365248512?s=20" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Jedseph</a>: "Imagine if they actually did research before rambling."....</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div><div></div><div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/opposing-republicans-debate-best-alternative-to-the-socialists-green-new-deal_4831263.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.theepochtimes.com/opposing-republicans-debate-best-alternative-to-the-socialists-green-new-deal_4831263.html</a></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
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</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Opposing Republicans Debate Best Alternative to the Socialist's Green New Deal</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The Epoch Times</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">(L-R) Marc Morano, founder and executive director of ClimateDepot.org, Met Club Treasurer John Sweeney, and Quill Robinson, vice president of ...</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MENU ABOUT US MAKE A DONATION</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Epoch Times</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SEARCH</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">    EpochTV US Politics Opinion World China Hong Kong Health Business & Markets Bright Arts Premium Games Sports Livestream More </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prominent Georgia Democrat Breaks With Party to Endorse Republican Brian Kemp Over Stacey Abrams</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1d share1228comments</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TSA to Continue Requiring COVID-19 Vaccine Proof for Non-US Citizens to Enter Country 2</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Elon Musk Threatens to ‘Name and Shame’ Advertisers Boycotting Twitter</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1d share1152comments</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Read More</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(L-R) Marc Morano, founder and executive director of ClimateDepot.org, Met Club Treasurer John Sweeney, and Quill Robinson, vice president of government affairs with the American Conservation Coalition, debate in New York on Oct. 26, 2022. (Juliette Fairley/The Epoch Times)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(L-R) Marc Morano, founder and executive director of ClimateDepot.org, Met Club Treasurer John Sweeney, and Quill Robinson, vice president of government affairs with the American Conservation Coalition, debate in New York on Oct. 26, 2022. (Juliette Fairley/The Epoch Times)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republicans</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Opposing Republicans Debate Best Alternative to the Socialist’s Green New Deal</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Juliette Fairley</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">November 1, 2022 Updated: November 1, 2022</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">0:003:54</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republicans are divided when it comes to climate change, but the issue is likely to be brought into unified focus after the mid-term elections, according to Metropolitan Republican Club (Met Club) panelists.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“If Republicans take both Houses of Congress, that will throw a wrench in Biden’s climate agenda and the question will become, ‘What will the climate action items be that the 73-person strong Conservative Climate Caucus will come to the table with,’” asked Met Club Treasurer John H. Sweeney.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sweeney was the moderator between two panelists debating opposing GOP views on the issue this week at the Met Club’s tiny East 83 Street townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It’s a debate that more Republicans wish was happening,” Sweeney told The Epoch Times. “They would like to see a substantial policy discussion on what we actually support as a party rather than just hearing what we’re against.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>The “Stopping the Socialist’s Green New Deal” debate pitted Marc Morano, founder and executive director of ClimateDepot.org, against Quill Robinson, vice president of government affairs with the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), which encouraged Utah Congressman John Curtis to form the Conservative Climate Caucus (CCC).</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Founded in 2017, ACC’s mission is to motivate young conservatives on the belief that economic and environmental success go together while ClimateDepot.org is a project stemming from the non-profit, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which rejects the theory that human activity causes climate change.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The Democratic Party will pay a price for their all-in philosophy on climate in the mid-term elections,” Morano said. “All they talked about was green energy, net zero, and climate and what it’s going to get them is a massive repudiation at the polls.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The CCC characterizes itself on their website as a coalition that educates Republicans about conservative climate proposals while fighting policies that hurt the U.S. economy, American workers, and national security.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The Caucus is not driving a policy agenda,” Robinson said. “What we’ll be pushing for is permitting reform; that’s the number one priority.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Permitting reform, which is expected to shake loose some $3 trillion in clean energy investments between now and 2032, is one of the few environmental narratives that Morano and Robinson agreed on, along with clean water and clean air.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Permitting reform makes it easier for us to get better American energy, cheaper and quicker, and to compete with foreign countries,” said Morano; the author of ‘The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change,’ ‘Green Fraud,’ ‘Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse Than You Think,’ and ‘The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown.’</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Overall, the speakers differed in view on the costs of climate change impacts and what policies are actually effective to deal with any of these impacts.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Just because we don’t like the Green New Deal doesn’t mean we should toss out climate change as an issue,” Robinson said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Morano, on the other hand, doesn’t see climate change presenting any significant danger above existing natural disasters that require big government mandates to address. Instead, he believes that the U.N.-led climate agenda itself is the greatest threat to progress. He wants the Republican party to craft an American energy policy that promotes homegrown energy regardless of the varying views on climate.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Wealth creates cleaner environments and technology creates lower emissions,” Morano said. “If you’re worried about climate, this is the way to go forward.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Robinson argued that the GOP must cater to young conservatives who do believe that climate change is a threat, while Morano strongly opposes that approach.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I don’t look at Greta Thunberg or the Youth Climate Movement that way,” he said. “I look at it as propagandizing kids and the last thing we want to do is legitimize it so that they’ll vote for us. I don’t buy that.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Juliette Fairley</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Juliette Fairley is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Born in Chateauroux, France, and raised outside of Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, Juliette is a well-adjusted military brat. She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TheStreet, Time magazine, Newsmax, and many other publications across the country. Send Juliette story ideas at JulietteFairley@gmail.com</div></div></div><div>=</div><div>blake moore UT 22% LCV</div><div>=</div><div>off bs  purty pix logo]</div><div><a href="https://curtis.house.gov/press-releases/rep-curtis-introduces-conservative-climate-caucus-with-over-50-members/">
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</div><div>washington, DC—Today, Rep. John Curtis (R-UT), member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced the new <a href="https://curtis.house.gov/conservative-climate-caucus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Conservative Climate Caucus</a> in a press conference at the US Capitol. The Congressman will serve as Chairman and lead the Caucus of over 60 members, including representatives from every committee with jurisdiction over climate policy and various ranking members.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Today, I am proud to launch the Conservative Climate Caucus with many of my Republican colleagues. Republicans have conservative solutions to lower emissions while enhancing economic prosperity. We do care about climate – and we already have solutions and plan to find more. <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The goal of the Conservative Climate Caucus is to bring members of the Republican party together to educate each other on climate policies that will make real progress on reducing emissions through American innovation and resources. Proposals to reduce emissions and be good stewards of the earth do not have to hurt the American economy – in fact they do the opposite. There is a way to lower global emissions without sacrificing American jobs and principles – and I believe Republicans are the ones that can and should be leading the charge.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I look forward to working with my colleagues to advance a message of caring for our planet, and move away from the culture of shaming that has become all too prevalent in our public dialogue.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Full list of Members on the Caucus:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://curtis.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">John Curtis</a> (Utah-03); Energy and Commerce<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://garretgraves.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Garrett Graves</a> (Louisiana-06); Select Committee on Climate (Ranking Member), Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources<a href="https://mcmorris.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Cathy McMorris Rodgers</a> (Washington-05); Energy and Commerce (RM)<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://westerman.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Bruce Westerman</a> (Arkansas-04); Transportation and Infrastructure; Natural Resources (RM)<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://thompson.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Glenn Thompson</a> (Pennsylvania-15); Agriculture (RM), Education and Labor <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://mccaul.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Michael McCaul</a> (Texas-10); Foreign Affairs (RM), Homeland Security <a href="https://lucas.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Frank Lucas</a> (Oklahoma-03); Financial Services, Science, Space and Technology (RM) <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://hudson.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Richard Hudson</a> (North Carolina-08); Energy and Commerce, Republican Conference Secretary    <a href="https://mckinley.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">David McKinley</a> (West Virginia-01); Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee RM    <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://barr.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Andy Barr</a> (Kentucky-06); Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, Republican Study Steering Committee<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://newhouse.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Dan Newhouse</a> (Washington-04); Appropriations, Western Caucus Chair <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://owens.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Burgess Owens</a> (Utah-04); Education and Labor, Judiciary<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://stewart.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Chris Stewart</a> (Utah-02); Appropriations, Intelligence <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://fleischmann.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Chuck Fleischmann</a> (Tennessee-03); Appropriations   <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://bentz.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Cliff Bentz</a> (Oregon-02); Natural Resources, Judiciary <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://garbarino.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Andrew Garbarino</a> (New York-02) Homeland Security, Small Business <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://joyce.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">David Joyce</a> (Ohio-14); Appropriations, Modernization, Ethics  <a href="https://blakemoore.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Blake Moore</a> (Utah-01); Armed Services, Natural Resources <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://valadao.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">David Valadao</a> (California-21); Appropriations <a href="https://lesko.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Debbie Lesko</a> (Arizona-08); Energy and Commerce<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://lamborn.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Doug Lamborn</a> (Colorado-05); Natural Resources, Armed Services <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://fortenberry.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Jeff Fortenberry</a> (Nebraska-01); Appropriations   <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://vandrew.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Jeff Van Drew</a> (New Jersey-02); Transportation and Infrastructure, Homeland Security <a href="https://armstrong.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Kelly Armstrong</a> (North Dakota-AL); Energy and Commerce    <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://zeldin.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Lee Zeldin</a> (New York-01); Financial Services, Foreign Affairs    <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://millermeeks.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Mariannette Miller-Meeks</a> (Iowa-02); Education and Labor, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security           <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://amodei.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Mark Amodei</a> (Nevada-02); Appropriations   <a href="https://mullin.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Markwayne Mullin</a> (Oklahoma-02); Energy and Commerce, Intelligence         <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://burgess.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Michael Burgess</a> (Texas-26); Energy and Commerce, Rules    <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://cloud.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Michael Cloud</a> (Texas-27); Oversight and Reform, Agriculture<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://waltz.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Michael Waltz</a> (Florida-06); Armed Services, Space, Science and Technology<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CCL spkr: <a href="https://mace.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Nancy Mace</a> (South Carolina-01); Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Reform, Veterans Affairs <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://fallon.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Pat Fallon</a> (Texas-04); Armed Services, Oversight and Reform      <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://meijer.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Peter Meijer</a> (Michigan-03); Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space and Technology    <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://crawford.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Rick Crawford</a> (Arkansas-01); Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Intelligence <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://bice.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Stephanie Bice</a> (Oklahoma-05); Armed Services, Space, Science and Technology<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://burchett.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Tim Burchett</a> (Tennessee-02); Foreign Affairs, Transportation and Infrastructure  <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://walberg.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Tim Walberg</a> (Michigan-07); Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor       <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://balderson.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Troy Balderson</a> (Ohio-12); Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://latta.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Robert Latta</a> (Ohio-05); Energy and Commerce,<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://jacobs.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Chris Jacobs</a> (New York-27); Agriculture, Budget<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://steel.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Michelle Steel</a> (California-34); Transportation and Infrastructure; Education and Labor<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://morgangriffith.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Morgan Griffith</a> (Virginia-09); Energy and Commerce<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://pfluger.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">August Pfluger</a> (Texas-11); Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://palazzo.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Steven Palazzo</a> (Mississippi-04); Appropriations<a href="https://dustyjohnson.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Dusty Johnson</a> (South Dakota- AL); Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://obernolte.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Jay Obernolte</a> (California-08); Budget, Natural Resources, Space, Science and Technology<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://bucshon.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Larry Bucshon</a> (Indiana-08); Energy and Commerce<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://baird.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Jim Baird</a> (Indiana-04); Agriculture, Science Space and Technology<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://bergman.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Jack Bergman</a> (Michigan-01); Armed Services, Veteran’s Affairs<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://salazar.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Maria Salazar</a> (Florida-27); Foreign Affairs, Small Business<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://rice.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Tom Rice</a> (South Carolina-07); Ways and Means<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://anthonygonzalez.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Anthony Gonzalez</a> (Ohio-16); Financial Services, Science Space and Technology<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://keller.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Fred Keller</a> (Pennsylvania-12); Education and Labor, Oversight and Reform<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://weber.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Randy Weber</a> (Texas-14); Science, Space and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://hill.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">French Hill</a> (Arkansas-02); Financial Services<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://huizenga.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Bill Huizenga</a> (Michigan-02); Financial Services<a href="https://upton.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Fred Upton</a> (Michigan-06); Energy and Commerce<a href="https://gosar.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Paul Gosar</a> (Arizona-04); Natural Resources, Oversight and Reform<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://mariodiazbalart.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Mario Diaz-Balart</a> (Florida-25); Appropriations<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://ferguson.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Drew Ferguson</a> (Georgia-03); Ways and Means<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://steil.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">Bryan Steil</a> (Wisconsin-01); Administration, Financial Services<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://timmons.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">William Timmons</a> (South Carolina-04); Financial Services, Steering<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://rutherford.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">John Rutherford</a> (Florida-04); Appropriations<div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">=</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="https://redgreenandblue.org/2019/02/06/71-republicans-house-panels-looking-climate-change-science-denying-numbskulls-data/">https://redgreenandblue.org/2019/02/06/71-republicans-house-panels-looking-climate-change-science-denying-numbskulls-data/</a></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
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</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div style=""><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="story-body story-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;">...Here’s a brief look at at the rest of the subcommittee members, starting with the Republicans.Republicans:<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 32px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_McMorris_Rodgers" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Cathy McMorris Rodgers</a> (WA-05) (LCV lifetime score: 3%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $502,390; ranked No. 20 in oil and gas contributions to House candidates in the 2018 campaign.) DENIER.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">David McKinley</a> (WV-01) (LCV lifetime score: 5%, career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $385,275) DENIER: During a congressional hearing in 2013, he said “…over the last 40 years,” there has been “almost no increase in temperature, very slight.” In 2010, he said, “Many scientists have disavowed past climate change research. […] This is an issue that people are using to try to stop the production of coal and the burning of coal in America, and we’ve got to find ways to stand up and say no to that. […] I don’t want to listen to Al Gore tell me from a political standpoint that global warming is caused by man because I don’t think he can support it.” </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Johnson(Ohio_politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Bill Johnson</a> (OH-06) (LCV lifetime score: 3%, career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $775,423) DENIER: “I am not an alarmist that believes that greenhouse gas emissions coming from the coal industry are causing major problems.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Long" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Billy Long</a> (MO-07) (LCV lifetime score: 2%, career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $180,500) Awful climate-related voting record: “I pledge to the taxpayers of my state, and to the American people, that I will oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Flores" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Bill Flores</a> (TX-17) (LCV lifetime score: 3%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $1,031,573; ranked No. 14 in oil and gas contributions to House candidates in the 2018 campaign.) DENIER: “It is time we stopped putting petty politics based on dubious ‘agenda-driven, scientific’ research ahead of creating more American energy.” </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markwayne_Mullin" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Markwayne Mullin</a> (OK-02) (LCV lifetime score: 1%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $640,400; ranked No. 16 in oil and gas contributions to House candidates in the 2018 campaign.) DENIER: “I haven’t seen the reports that would get me to believe that anything’s different than the patterns that we had that we’ve gone through the time of records. All of our records we’ve hit in heat waves, look at them. They’re in the 1930s. Dust bowl happened way before your and I’s time. And the cycles we had, we had cold winters growing up and we’ve had mild winters growing up.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Carter" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Buddy Carter</a> (GA-01) (LCV lifetime score: 0%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $100,650) DENIER: “Certainly we have to pay attention to [climate change]. There’s no doubt about that. But I do have reservations about how real it is.” </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Duncan(politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Jeff Duncan</a> (SC-03) (LCV lifetime score: 3%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $228,750) DENIER: “In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began its process of regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emission under the Clean Air Act because of CO2‘s contribution to global warming. The problem with the agency’s finding is that it relies on questionable science and ignores vigorous dissention [sic] among the scientific community. Even if we set aside the abundance of scientific dissention [sic] when it comes to the EPA’s endangerment findings or the supposed effects of CO2 on climate, the EPA’s regulations will not reduce CO2 enough to have any meaningful effect.” </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Walden" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Greg Walden</a> (OR-02) Ex officio (LCV, lifetime score: 9%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $805,650; ranked No. 6 in oil and gas contributions to House candidates in the 2018 campaign).</li></ul>Democrats<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 32px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Clarke" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Yvette Clarke</a> (NY-09) (LCV lifetime score: 94%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $3,750) “As the world prepares for climate talks Monday in Paris, any effort to prevent global climate change and limit fossil fuel consumption—efforts the public overwhelmingly supports, according to <a href="http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/11/05/global-concern-about-climate-change-broad-support-for-limiting-emissions/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Pew polling this month</a>—must account for the disproportionate harm to developing nations and to disadvantaged communities in the United States. Harm to communities of color in the U.S., especially, is too often overlooked. And yet, they’re most often on the receiving end of rising temperatures and sea levels; severe weather; and toxic air, water and soil, contaminated by the extraction, transport and production of fossil fuels.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanette_Barrag%C3%A1n" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Nanette Barragán</a> (CA-44) (LCV lifetime score: 97%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $0)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McEachin" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Donald McEachin</a> (VA-04) (LCV lifetime score: 89%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $8,550)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Blunt_Rochester" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Lisa Blunt Rochester</a> (DE-at-large) (LCV lifetime score: 97%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $7,001)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Soto" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Darren Soto</a> (FL-09) (LCV lifetime score: 100%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $0)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peters(politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Scott Peters</a> (CA-52) (LCV lifetime score: 94%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $47,103)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Dingell" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Debbie Dingell</a> (MI-12) (LCV lifetime score: 98%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $41,200</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Schakowsky" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Jan Schakowsky</a> (IL-09) (LCV lifetime score: 98%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions): $5,035)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_DeGette" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Diana DeGette</a> (CO-01) (LCV lifetime score: 96%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions): $21,210)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Matsui" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Doris Matsui</a> (CA-06) (LCV lifetime score: 97%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $92,250)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_McNerney" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Jerry McNerney</a> (CA-09) (LCV lifetime score: 94%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $35,600)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul_Ruiz(politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Raul Ruiz</a> (CA-36) (LCV lifetime score: 94%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $25,413)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pallone" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Frank Pallone</a> (NJ-06) Ex officio. Chair of committee. (LCV lifetime score: 96%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $136,689)</li></ul><h4 class="AlignCenter" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 22.4px; line-height: 24px; font-weight: normal;">OTHER MEMBERS OF THE ENERGY AND COMMERCE COMMITTEE</h4>Republicans<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Walden" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Greg Walden</a>: (OR-02) Ranking member of committee. (LCV lifetime score: 9%, career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $828,650.) Lousy climate-related voting record.“The emails raise a number of serious questions concerning the transparency and integrity of of U.S.-supported climate research going back more than 10 years.”Walden was a co-sponsor of the 2011 <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr910" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Energy Tax Prevention Act</a> to stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Voted in support of <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/24" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">S.J. Res. 24</a>, a “resolution of disapproval” under the Congressional Review Act that would nullify the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan—the first nationwide limit on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, and key climate change policy. He may be less direct in dismissing climate change, but his foot-dragging and obfuscation on the issue are no less threatening to the planet. He has voted against clean energy research funding and against acknowledging that climate change is largely human-caused.<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 32px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Fred Upton</a> (MI-06) DENIER: “I do not say that it is manmade.” (LCV lifetime score: 26%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $1,191,243)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Scalise" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Ste</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Scalise" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">ve Scalise</a> (LA-01) (LCV lifetime score: 4%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $1,213,229) DENIER: “While their global warming agenda continues to lose support, it’s ironic that radical environmentalists are at it again, less than a month after NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), announced the Great Lakes had the most widespread ice coverage in over 35 years. Thirty years ago liberals were using global cooling to push new radical regulations. Then they shifted their focus to global warming in an effort to prop up wave after wave of job-killing regulations that are leading to skyrocketing food and energy costs.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Latta" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Bob Latta</a> (OH-05) (LCV lifetime score: 3%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $374,175) Poor climate-related voting record.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Guthrie" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Brett Guthrie</a> (KY-02) (LCV lifetime score: 5%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $273,550) DENIER: Voted against <a href="https://www.congress.gov/amendment/113th-congress/house-amendment/581" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">an amendment</a> to the Electricity Security and Affordability Act (<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3826/amendments" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">H.R. 3826</a>) that would require Congress to accept the scientific finding “that greenhouse gas pollution is ‘contributing to long-lasting changes in our climate that can have a range of negative effects.’”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Olson" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Pete Olson</a> (TX-22) (LCV lifetime score: 2%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $1,103,928) DENIER: Monica Trauzzi: “Congressman, a big focus on climate change tonight. What did you make of the president’s challenge to climate deniers?” Pete Olson: ”I laughed. I mean, I’ve said over and over our climate is changing, that’s been a fact since God created the Earth. The problem is right now we don’t know how much man is making that change happen. So let’s take a deep breath and do some studies, and then do some studies about water, because right now all the studies are on land around cities. Let’s diversify, actually see what’s happening to our planet, see what we can control and not control. Again, I am not this — well, let’s just say I disagree with the president’s attack on people who just question his motives, because this is not so much for the world, this is politics.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kinzinger" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Adam Kinzinger</a> (IL-16) (LCV lifetime score: 6%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $287,087) Terrible climate-related voting record.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Griffith" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Morgan Griffith</a> (VA-09) (LCV lifetime score: 5%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $430,806) DENIER: It is “reckless to pursue such an economically devastating plan in order to address a scientific theory – man-made global warming – that many scientists do not even believe is happening.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Bilirakis" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Gus Bilirakis</a> (FL-12) (LCV lifetime score: 8%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $171,850) Pitiful climate-related voting record.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Bucshon" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Larry Bucshon</a> (IN-08) (LCV lifetime score: 5%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $241,600) DENIER: “It’s not about affecting the global temperature and climate change. There’s public comments out there that that question has been answered saying ‘no.’ Of all the climatologists whose career depends on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles, yes I could read that. But I don’t believe it.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Brooks" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Susan Brooks</a> (IN-05) (LCV lifetime score: 4%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $105,400) Terrible climate-related voting record.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hudson(U.S.politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Richard Hudson</a> (NC-08) (LCV lifetime score: 1%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $286,050) DENIER: Answered “No” in the Vote Smart Political Courage Test to “Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change?”  </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Walberg" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Tim Walberg</a> (MI-07) (LCV lifetime score: career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $303,320) DENIER: “I read scientists, editors—at least equal on both sides—that say there’s a cycle, that significant warming that’s produced by human involvement… I read on the other side an equal number, at the very least, that say just the opposite. That this something that’s gone on for eons; that we go through these cycles.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Gianforte" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Greg Gianforte</a> (MT-at-large) (LCV lifetime score: 9%, career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $218,888) Terrible climate-related voting record.</li></ul>Democrats<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 32px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pallone" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Frank Pallone</a> (NJ-06) Chair of committee. (LCV lifetime score: 96%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $136,689)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Rush" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Bobby Rush</a> (IL-01) (LCV lifetime score: 79%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $85,700)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Eshoo" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Anna Eshoo</a> (CA-18) (LCV lifetime score: 97%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $12,450)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Engel" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Eliot Engel</a> (NY-16) (LCV lifetime score: 93%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $51,150)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_DeGette" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Diana DeGette</a> (CO-01) (LCV lifetime score: 96%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $21,210)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Doyle(American_politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Mike Doyle</a> (PA-14) (LCV lifetime score: 77%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $247,837)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.K.Butterfield" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">G. K. Butterfield</a> (NC-01) (LCV lifetime score: 89%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $100,800)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Matsui" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Doris Matsui</a> (CA-06) (LCV lifetime score: 97%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $92,250)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Castor" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Kathy Castor</a> (FL-14) (LCV lifetime score: 93%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $2,951)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sarbanes" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">John Sarbanes</a> (MD-03) (LCV lifetime score: 96%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $28,353)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_McNerney" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Jerry McNerney</a> (CA-09) (LCV lifetime score: 94%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $35,600)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Welch" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Peter Welch</a> (VT-at-large) (LCV lifetime score: 94%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $103,250)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Ray_Luj%C3%A1n" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Ben Ray Luján</a> (NM-03) (LCV lifetime score: 96%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $137,500)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Loebsack" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Dave Loebsack</a> (IA-02) (LCV lifetime score: 89%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $19,001)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schrader" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Kurt Schrader</a> (OR-05) (LCV lifetime score: 71%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $145,400)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kennedy_III" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Joe Kennedy III</a> (MA-04) (LCV lifetime score: 96%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $45,650)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_C%C3%A1rdenas" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Tony Cárdenas</a> (CA-29) (LCV lifetime score: 92%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $87,305)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Veasey" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Marc Veasey</a> (TX-33) (LCV lifetime score: 88%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $246,700)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_McLane_Kuster" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Ann McLane Kuster</a> (NH-02) (LCV lifetime score: 95%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $4,512)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Kelly" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Robin Kelly</a> (IL-02) (LCV lifetime score: 93%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $6,750)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_O%27Halleran" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Tom O’Halleran</a> (AZ-0)1 (LCV lifetime score: 91%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $5,675)</li></ul><h4 class="AlignCenter" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 22.4px; line-height: 24px; font-weight: normal;">HOUSE COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES</h4>Democrats<figure class="image-captioned align-right" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<figcaption title="attribution: Getty Images" data-image-attribution="attribution: Getty Images" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rep. Raúl Grijalva, chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources. The committee will begin its month of climate hearings Wednesday morning.</figcaption></figure><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 32px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Grijalva" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Raúl Grijalva</a> (AZ-03) Chair (LCV lifetime score: 96%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $12,006). Environmental groups and advocates clamored for President Obama to appoint Grijalva as secretary of the Interior Department in 2013 after Ken Salazar stepped down from the post. The Arizona representative is a “visionary leader” with a strong record of dealing with global warming and other environmental issues, and he has an excellent relationship with Indian tribes. He has said: “Climate change is undeniably the greatest challenge of our time – the question is not whether our planet is warming but whether we are committed to meeting this threat head-on. Just days before the largest climate demonstration ever amassed, Congressional Republicans are pushing legislation that would do everything from blocking vital EPA protections, to ordering federal agencies to pretend that carbon pollution and climate change do no harm, to exempting the Keystone XL pipeline from all permitting requirements. They couldn’t be more out-of-step with the American people.“Addressing climate change is about more than slowing the warming of our planet. It’s about recognizing the public health threats posed by pollutants, and about doing right by those who will inherit the earth when we are gone.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Napolitano" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Grace Napolitano</a> (CA-32) (LCV lifetime score:  90%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $68,690)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Costa" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Jim Costa</a> (CA-16) (LCV lifetime score: 47%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $538,474)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Huffman" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Jared Huffman</a> (CA-02) (LCV lifetime score: 99%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $0)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Lowenthal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Alan Lowenthal</a> (CA-47) (LCV lifetime score:  98%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $46,850)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_Gallego" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Ruben Gallego</a> (AZ-07) (LCV lifetime score: 95%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $5,503)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nydia_Vel%C3%A1zquez" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Nydia Velázquez</a> (NY-07) (LCV lifetime score:  93%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $40,001)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_DeGette" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Diana DeGette</a> (CO-01) (LCV lifetime score: 96%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $21,210)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacy_Clay" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">William Lacy Clay</a> Jr. (MO-01) (LCV lifetime score: 90%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $18,100)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Dingell" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Debbie Dingell</a> (MI-12) (LCV lifetime score: 98%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $41,200) (Also serves on Energy and Commerce Committee.)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_G.Brown" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Anthony G. Brown</a> (MD-04) (LCV lifetime score: 100%;  Career fossil fuel campaign donations: $12,500)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McEachin" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Donald McEachin</a> (VA-04) (LCV lifetime score: 89%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $8,550) (Also serves on Energy and Commerce.)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Soto" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Darren Soto</a> (FL-09) (LCV lifetime score: 100%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $0) (Also serves on Energy and Commerce.)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Horsford" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Steven Horsford</a> (NV-04) (LCV lifetime score: 73%—this is based on his 2013-15 term of office, during which he missed 10 votes while undergoing surgery. Had he been judged only on the votes he cast, his lifetime score would have been 87%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $13,025)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Case" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Ed Case</a> (HI-02) (freshman, no LCV score yet, career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $4,450)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TJ_Cox" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">TJ Cox</a> (CA-21) (freshman, no LCV score yet, career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $750)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Neguse" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Joe Neguse</a> (CO-02) (freshman, no LCV score yet, career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $0)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Levin" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Mike Levin</a> (CA-49) (freshman, no LCV score yet, career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $5,268)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Haaland" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Deb Haaland</a> (NM-01) Vice chair (freshman, no LCV score yet, career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $3,283)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Van_Drew" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Jeff Van Drew</a> (NJ-02) (freshman, no LCV score yet, career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $1,050)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cunningham(American_politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Joe Cunningham</a> (SC-01) (freshman, no LCV score yet, career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $0)</li></ul>The following two members can introduce legislation and vote in committee but not in the full House. They thus have no LCV scores.<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 32px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_San_Nicolas" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Michael San Nicolas</a>, Guam. Career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $0</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Sablan" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Gregorio Sablan</a>, N. Mariana Islands, Vice Chair (Insular Affairs) Career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $0</li></ul>Republicans<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 32px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Bishop" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Rob Bishop</a> (UT-01) Ranking member (LCV lifetime score: 2%; career fossil fuel campaign contribution: $548,866) DENIER: “Despite the fact that scientific data underlying the studies of global warming appear to have <a title="" href="http://robbishop.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=159376" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">been manipulated</a> to produce an intended outcome, EPA officials disregarded the contaminated science, calling it little more than a blip on the history of this process. It is becoming increasingly obvious that the EPA is more interested in grabbing power over our entire country than in getting the science and the answer right.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Young" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Don Young</a> (AK-at-large) (LCV lifetime score: 8%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $1,428,313) DENIER</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Gohmert" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Louie Gohmert</a> (TX-01) (LCV lifetime score: 4%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $451,354) DENIER</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Lamborn" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Doug Lamborn</a> (CO-05) (LCV lifetime score: 6%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $365,438) DENIER</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Wittman" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Rob Wittman</a> (VA-01) (LCV lifetime score: 11%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $95,765) DENIER</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_McClintock" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Tom McClintock</a> (CA-04) (LCV lifetime score: 4%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $213,100) DENIER</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gosar" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Paul Gosar</a> (AZ-04) (LCV lifetime score: 5%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $89,300) DENIER</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cook(politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Paul Cook</a> (CA-08) (LCV lifetime score: 3%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $52,900) Lousy climate-related voting record.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Westerman" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Bruce Westerman</a> (AR-04) (LCV lifetime score: 1%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $172,050) DENIER</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garret_Graves" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Garret Graves</a> (LA-06) (LCV lifetime score: 4%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $512,234) DENIER</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_Hice" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Jody Hice</a> (GA-10) (LCV lifetime score: 0%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $24,500) DENIER</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster(Florida_politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Daniel Webster</a> (FL-11) Vice Ranking Member (LCV lifetime score: 5%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $62,050) DENIER</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Cheney" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Liz Cheney</a> (WY-at large) (LCV, lifetime score: 0%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $278,025) DENIER: “I think that [the federal government’s] assertions about climate change are based on junk science. But even if you agree with what they are saying, the administration itself admits that the steps it’s taking to kill our coal industry will have little or no impact overall on global temperatures.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Johnson(Louisiana_politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Mike Johnson</a> (LA-04) (LCV lifetime score: 0%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $118,250)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Curtis(American_politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">John Curtis</a> (UT-03) (LCV, lifetime score: 0%; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $31,900)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Hern" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Kevin Hern</a> (OK-01) (freshman, no LCV score yet; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $91,661) DENIER</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Fulcher" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Russ Fulcher</a> (ID-01) (freshman, no LCV score yet; career fossil fuel campaign contributions: $20,000) DENIER</li></ul>The following  two members can introduce legislation and vote in committee but not in the full House. They thus have no LCV scores.<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 32px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amata_Coleman_Radewagen" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Amata Coleman Radewagen</a>, American Samoa. Career fossil fuel campaign donations: $1,500</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenniffer_Gonz%C3%A1lez" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Jenniffer González</a>, Puerto Rico, Vice ranking member (Insular Affairs) Career fossil fuel campaign donations: $1,000</li></ul></div></div></div></div><div style="">=</div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Statements of Support<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Heather Reams, Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) Executive Director: “CRES applauds US Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) and the 51 other House Republicans who today announced the creation of the Conservative Climate Caucus and looks forward to working with Members and staff on its agenda. The climate is changing and to address it, our country needs a commonsense approach that works by reducing energy prices, not energy choices; shrinking our emissions, not our economy; and, exporting American innovation, not American jobs.  Despite what fringe activists and their Capitol Hill champions say, overregulating America will not lower emissions globally. This caucus understands that climate change is a global issue. Today, 85 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions occur outside of the United States – a share that will increase to 90 percent by the end of the next decade. This means that U.S. climate and energy policy must foster innovation and commercialization pathways that work for Indiana as well as for India. Achieving emissions-reduction solutions are possible with the leadership demonstrated by the creation this caucus today.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rich Powell, ClearPath Executive Director: “Republicans have real solutions for climate change – ones that are technologically realistic, economically feasible, and politically sustainable. Over the past decade, conservatives have institutionalized big, bold goals anchored by clean energy breakthroughs as the best approach to solving the climate challenge. Higher taxes and more regulations won’t solve it – and this Conservative Climate Caucus will continue advancing solutions that strengthen the American economy, and reduce global carbon emissions.”  <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Background<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Caucus will be focused on educating Republican House Members on conservative climate solutions that align with Republican principles and are based on an agenda that will make real progress through American innovation and ultimately enhance American prosperity. Learn more <a href="https://curtis.house.gov/conservative-climate-caucus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s;">HERE</a>.</div><div>
</div><div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">=</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">12 21</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">tO: Interested Parties FROM: Lori Lodes, Climate Power Executive Director & Pete Maysmith, LCV Victory Fund SVP of Campaigns DATE: December 2, 2021 RE: The House Majority Took Historic Climate Action. Republicans Blanket No Vote is a Black Mark on Their Electoral Future.The House majority stood together in a pivotal moment to pass the most significant climate legislation in history, delivering on their promises to the voters who elected them. This historic moment occurred because moderate and progressive Democratic members of Congress spoke in a clear, consistent voice on the need for climate action: <a href="https://climatepower.us/resources/icymi-speaker-pelosi-majority-leader-schumer-sens-markey-and-smith-chair-jeffries-reps-bonamici-escobar-gottheimer-levin-neguse-and-horsford-join-lcv-and-climate-power-to-talk-importance/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">every</a> <a href="https://climatepower.us/resources/icymi-chair-castor-congressional-champions-return-from-cop26-say-build-back-better-is-the-hallmark-of-meeting-americas-pledge-to-the-world/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">step</a> <a href="https://climatepower.us/resources/icymi-pelosi-congressional-champions-and-climate-groups-rally-to-pass-climate-action-in-the-build-back-better-act/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">of</a> the way. <a href="https://climatepower.us/resources/memo-democrats-listened-to-the-american-people-becoming-the-party-of-climate-action/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Democrats are the party of climate action</a>.Republicans, meanwhile, are climate contortionists. They create groups like the <a href="https://curtis.house.gov/press-releases/rep-curtis-introduces-conservative-climate-caucus-with-over-50-members/" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Conservative Climate Caucus</a> and profess to see this as a generational problem. Yet, when the moment came to take meaningful action, every single House Republican voted no. Even those members who represent communities who are already paying a steep price from a changing climate. The Republican approach of saying one thing and then opposing action while the climate crisis disrupts lives across the nation will not go unnoticed by voters deciding the majority in the coming year.The Conservative Climate Caucus is an empty vessel. It reflects the larger problem for Republicans.According to the <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/climate-deniers-117th-congress/" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Center for American Progress</a>, 52 percent of House Republicans and 60 percent of Senate Republicans still officially deny the science behind climate change. This ranges from calling climate change a hoax, to dismissing the science, to asserting that the “climate is always <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1455548347104825344?s=21" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">changing</a>.” But a growing contingent of House Republicans realize that voters won’t forgive them for remaining climate deniers.Those members have turned to actions like starting the much hyped Conservative Climate Caucus to pretend they are serious about tackling this crisis. In reality, they still live in the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/05/politics/republicans-climate-crisis-cop26/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">shadow of Donald Trump’s climate denial </a>while remaining beholden to the fossil fuel lobbyists. Those lobbyists remind Republicans if they want the pipelines of campaign cash to keep flowing, they need to protect the interests of fossil fuel CEOs. That makes it impossible for efforts like this caucus to come up with a coherent plan.Take what the Conservative Climate Caucus Chair Representative John Curtis, said to <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/a-republican-in-glasgow-conservative-climate-caucus-founder-rep-john-curtis-looks-to-bring-gop-up-to-speed-100007517.html" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Yahoo News</a> during the COP26 summit in response to what the Caucus is advocating for: “We should double down on the innovation-focused approach that unleashes entrepreneurs that will develop exportable and affordable solutions, not a top-down approach dictated by government, which is unfortunately what we are seeing with policies from some Democrats in reconciliation.” His explanation makes one think Republicans would be enthusiastic about a Build Back Better Act that includes a <a href="https://slate.com/business/2021/10/joe-manchin-climate-plan-cepp-tax-credits-democrats-reconciliation.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">transformational clean energy tax credit package</a>, providing a firehose of investments to innovators that put our clean energy economy into hyperdrive, supported by Fortune 500 CEOs and entrepreneurs alike. Or that <a href="https://www.lcv.org/article/memo-build-back-better-act-would-still-include-historic-emissions-reductions-environmental-justice-investments/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">unleashes investments</a> to clean up Black and Brown neighborhoods near toxic sites in a myriad of ways to improve public health and quality of life. Instead, House Republicans voted in lockstep against bold climate action that meets the moment.Democrats can tell their constituents how the Build Back Better Act will create good paying jobs, cut pollution fueling climate disasters, lower energy costs for working families and begin to bring justice to communities on the frontline of climate change. Republicans, meanwhile, will continue to parrot greenwashing talking points from the oil & gas lobby focused on vague proclamations that something must be done, collect their campaign checks from fossil fuel companies, and actively try to halt progress. A do-nothing caucus or vague pledges won’t work for frontline Republicans. Because the climate crisis is a top concern for voters.2021 will be remembered as the moment we realized climate change is no longer a chart or a graph, or happening in some far off future. The climate crisis is happening right now. One in three people in this country were impacted by climate fueled extreme weather this summer. Republicans can’t dodge questions about it any longer — not even from their voters. Gallup’s annual voter survey on climate change reports that <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/1615/environment.aspx" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Republican voters aged 18-29</a> believe global warming is driven by human activity.In September, polling data from the Yale Center For Climate Communications found that <a href="https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/dramatic-increase-in-public-beliefs-and-worries-about-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">concern over climate change shot to a record high</a>, with the percentage of those “very worried” increasing 10 points since March of 2021. For the first time in Yale’s research, a majority (55%) of voters agree that climate change is harming people in the US “right now.” <a href="https://climatepower.us/resource_tax/polling/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Recent polling</a> from Data for Progress and Climate Power revealed that three-quarters of all voters (75 percent), including 92 percent of Democrats, 75 percent of Independents, and 57 percent of Republicans, agree the U.S. should work with other countries to combat climate change and reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.These concerns from voters have led to broad support for the Build Back Better Act’s transformative policies, with that support remaining consistent through all the twists and turns for the legislation. A <a href="https://www.lcv.org/article/new-poll-support-for-the-build-back-better-act-in-24-battleground-house-districts/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">September poll</a> found the Build Back Better Act popular with majorities of voters, and specific climate action even more so. Broad majorities continued to back it in an <a href="https://climatepower.us/resource_tax/polling/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">October survey</a>. In a warning sign for frontline Republicans, by a +28 margin, voters in that October survey said they are more likely to vote for a candidate in next year’s midterms who supports the Build Back Better Act over a candidate who opposed the legislation.A test case in how frontline Republicans can no longer hide from climate actionThe entire country is feeling the brunt of the climate crisis. That’s particularly true in states like California and Florida on the front lines of extreme weather disasters; yet still have members of Congress refusing to act. Among those are California Representatives <a href="https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/community-voices/community-voices-effects-of-climate-change-cant-be-ignored/article_8e3c17fe-26d3-11ec-bc15-1fd05e51d2ba.html" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">David Valadao</a> (CA-21), Mike Garcia (CA-25), Young Kim (CA-39), Michelle Steel (CA-48) and Florida Representatives Carlos Giménez (FL-26) and Maria Salazar (FL-27).In August and September, Climate Power <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/2021/08/30/climate-groups-launch-1m-ad-campaign-aimed-at-six-battleground-republicans/" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">ran a hard-hitting ad campaign</a> showing the impacts climate change-fueled extreme heat, drought, and wildfires are having on California and tropical storms are waging on Florida communities. The ads ran on screens across a variety of platforms including Fox News in California and Spanish language TV in Florida. <a href="https://climatepower.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2021/08/Climate-Power-Extreme-Weather-Test-Toplines.pdf" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: normal; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Testing of the ads</a> demonstrated that reminding voters of Congressional Republicans’ silence on the Build Back Better plan reduced job approval by 3 points and persuaded voters that Republicans in Congress are not looking out for families.The campaign was a signal that there would be accountability for voting the wrong way on the future of our economy and our planet. Voters will remember those members of Congress who claim to care about climate change, yet voted against taking the action that science demands is necessary and will make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">=</div></div><div></div>