Isn’t it wonderful when people who don’t vote Republican, don’t support Republicans, work uber-hard to oppose Republicans and make sure they lose elections, who stand against everything Republicans stand for (except when it comes to their own personal freedom, free speech, ability to make money, travel in fossil fueled vehicles and planes, and have government leave them alone) want to dictate to Republicans what they should do? In this case, it’s Christy Goldfuss, the chief policy impact officer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a far, far left scam advocacy group
It’s Time for Republicans To Get Serious About Climate Change
After a year of remarkable achievement in the nation’s urgent work to confront climate change, the landscape of possibility is shifting, with Republicans now holding the House majority.
To a person, the GOP opposed the nation’s strongest-ever climate action last summer, when Congress approved $370 billion, over 10 years, in strategic investment to strengthen the economy and speed the growth of clean energy.
Wasn’t that bill about inflation reduction? And it didn’t do that?
No matter who holds the gavel in the 118th Congress, the climate crisis will not go away. Nor will the opportunity to confront it in ways that create jobs, cut costs for our families, and make our communities, rural and urban, more equitable and resilient.
Congress has an important role to play, as does the executive branch, in making sure critical clean energy incentives shrink the nation’s carbon footprint and deliver on benefits already improving the lives of people in red states and blue.
Why? I don’t see this duty in the Constitution. Tell you what, Christy: let’s agree on green lighting and fast tracking lots of next-gen nuclear power plants. NRDC isn’t opposed in principle, but, in practice, they sure find a lot of reasons to complain about them. Anyhow, blah blah blah to
Congress also has a responsibility to expand opportunity and equity across rural America, by imbedding those goals in this year’s $400 billion farm bill.
That means making the national crop insurance, agricultural research, and related support programs work better for farmers that plant cover crops and take other measures to make their fields more resilient in the face of worsening storms, floods, heat waves, and drought. And it entails efforts to improve soils, help farmers transition to organic practices, and assist rural electric co-ops in replacing coal-fired power with renewable energy from the wind and sun.
Congress will play a key role, as always, in funding major transportation initiatives, bolstered by the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which includes money to build half a million electric vehicle charging stations coast to coast, restore urban communities fragmented by misguided highway siting, and help strengthen public transit.
So, basically, the GOP needs to give in to the Democrat climate apocalypse agenda, and get nothing back in return. Strange how that works.
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