{"id":435124,"date":"2021-04-20T11:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=435124"},"modified":"2021-04-20T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:47:12","slug":"house-republicans-outline-their-stance-on-climate-change-and-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-outline-their-stance-on-climate-change-and-clean-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Outline Their Stance on Climate Change and Clean Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-republicans-outline-their-stance-on-climate-change-and-clean-energy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=435124&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2873.jpeg\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>House Republicans on April 19 outlined their stance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-climate-change\">climate change<\/a> and reducing global emissions, advocating for developing clean U.S. energy resources without sacrificing American energy independence and American jobs. Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), ranking member of the House Select Climate Committee, said Republicans want to further reduce emissions around the world and protect the environment by exporting the United States\u2019 cleanest energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd at the heart of this\u2014American innovators, domestic resources, and free markets,\u201d said Graves in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.gov\/rep-garret-graves-what-we-believe-and-why\/\">video summary of GOP view<\/a> on climate change and clean energy. \u201cWe must utilize these tools in a way that enhances the American workers\u2019 competitiveness and improves our energy and national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Monday that Republicans in the House will be featuring dozens of bills and policy ideas on energy and climate in the coming weeks of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur members have been working for years to develop thoughtful targeted legislation to reduce global emissions by ensuring we can develop and build a new technology at home that is clean, affordable, and exportable,\u201d said McCarthy. \u201cUnlike Democratic plans, ours don\u2019t kill American jobs or make American energy more expensive to increase taxes and regulations. Instead, House Republicans are focused on solutions that make American energy cleaner, more affordable, and also reduce emissions around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s recent executive orders on climate change state a goal of setting the United States on course to creating a carbon-free power sector by 2035 and a net-zero economy by 2050. To achieve these goals, the Biden administration is having all relevant federal agencies adopt its climate change agenda and subsidies are being cut off from the fossil fuel industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe order establishes the National Climate Task Force, assembling leaders from across 21 federal agencies and departments to enable a whole-of-government approach to combat the climate crisis,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/01\/27\/fact-sheet-president-biden-takes-executive-actions-to-tackle-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad-create-jobs-and-restore-scientific-integrity-across-federal-government\/\">the order states<\/a>. \u201cSecretary of the Interior is to pause any new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or offshore waters to the extent possible,\u201d the order continues. In all, the order mandates that the United States move away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately return a request for comment on the Republicans\u2019 position on climate change and U.S. energy independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica is the world leader in reducing emissions, and in energy research and development,\u201d said Graves. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve got to focus on with our clean energy strategies is looking at the entire globe because this isn\u2019t a problem that the United States can solve itself, many of the very climate solutions that have been pushed by the left actually result in increased global emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One such policy is the Obama-era Paris climate accord, which Trump pulled the United States out of but Biden has rejoined since taking office. Conservatives are opposed to the pact because it does not require countries like China, the world\u2019s biggest polluter, to reduce their carbon emissions to the extent that the United States is required to. Graves said for every ton of emissions the United States is required to reduce, China increases by 4 tons.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives believe that even if the United States were to achieve net-zero emissions by paying higher energy bills and bearing the brunt of a weaker economy, this would not help global emissions because larger countries like China and India would still be increasing their carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p>Graves, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), and Foreign Affairs Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-Texas) recently introduced the Paris Transparency and Accountability Act.<\/p>\n<p>This bill calls for renegotiating the Paris agreement or developing a new agreement to ensure China and all major carbon emitters have results comparable to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has been a global leader in reducing emissions and the GOP wants this to continue by putting the focus on exporting U.S. clean energy to other countries since global demand for energy is projected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/detail.php?id=41433\">increase almost 50 percent<\/a> by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans want to fill that global demand with clean U.S. natural gas energy without sacrificing American jobs and American resources.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s policies are canceling projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline, which is said to have cost thousands of jobs and millions of dollars as well as making the U.S. less energy independent.<\/p>\n<p>14 Attorneys General wrote to Biden in Feb. to ask him to reverse the decision on the pipeline and to prevent the economic damage that many keystone states will experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pipeline states and their local communities will also suffer dramatically. In Montana for instance, killing Keystone XL will likely cost the state approximately $58 million in annual tax revenue,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/media.dojmt.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/Keystone-LTR-FINAL-FINAL.pdf\">the letter states.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Graves said, the U.S. spends more money \u201con basic energy research than every other country in the world combined,\u201d said Graves. \u201cOur oil and gas are going to have demanded all over the world. Since it\u2019s the cleanest the most efficient, we need to be exporting it to these countries to displace the dirtier fuel sources for Russia and China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but Graves said his party believes China is using the climate change crisis to advance its military strategy, which is a direct security threat to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina has gone and dominated the rare earth and strategic minerals markets. They\u2019ve cornered or monopolized the resources around the world, and they\u2019re one of the top producers,\u201d said Graves. \u201cContinuing down this path of flawed energy and climate strategies only plays into the hands of China, and their national military strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans on April 19 outlined their stance on climate change and reducing global emissions, advocating for developing clean U.S. energy resources without sacrificing American energy independence and American jobs. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2873.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"House Republicans Outline Their Stance on Climate Change and Clean Energy","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2873.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"House Republicans Outline Their Stance on Climate Change and Clean Energy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}