{"id":951078,"date":"2021-11-01T19:13:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T23:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=951078"},"modified":"2021-11-01T19:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T23:13:45","slug":"wyoming-sen-barrasso-demands-carbon-footprint-info-of-bidens-trip-to-un-climate-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wyoming-sen-barrasso-demands-carbon-footprint-info-of-bidens-trip-to-un-climate-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming Sen. Barrasso Demands Carbon Footprint Info Of Biden\u2019s Trip To UN Climate Conference"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwyoming-sen-barrasso-demands-carbon-footprint-info-of-bidens-trip-to-un-climate-conference%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=951078&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--><p>A top Senate Republican sent letters to several Biden administration officials, demanding information on their travels to Glasgow, Scotland, for a global climate summit.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member John Barrasso asked the officials how many staff from their agency are attending the conference, how much that travel will cost U.S. taxpayers and what the total carbon footprint will be as a result of their trips, according to the letters sent Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/31\/chuck-todd-jennifer-bidens-infrastructure-uniting-democrats\/\">Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm<\/a>, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen were among those Barrasso requested information from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the staggering cost of the conference, I am concerned that what appears to be a bloated US delegation will prove counterproductive to the COP\u2019s mission,\u201d the Wyoming senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.senate.gov\/services\/files\/45D1ED71-E7AE-4D55-BE26-B43024D02F1A\">wrote<\/a>.\u201dThese commitments strike a tone of insincerity as a majority of COP26 delegates will have contributed a significant amount of carbon emissions to attend COP26.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/30\/united-states-paris-accords-donald-trump-joe-biden-emissions\/\">(RELATED: Here\u2019s How America Reduced Emissions More Than Any Other Major Country Despite Leaving The Paris Accords)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barrasso noted that people around the world successfully transitioned to teleconferencing for meetings, conferences and work during the pandemic. He added that it is \u201cperplexing\u201d that Biden administration officials opted to contribute to growing carbon emissions in light of their ability to participate remotely.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7313059\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7313059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson chat during the COP26 welcome reception in Glasgow, U.K. on Monday. (Alberto Pezzali\/Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Sunday, the United Nations kicked off its annual climate change summit, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/26\/united-nations-climate-conference-unilever-sponsor-plastic-pollution\/\">COP26<\/a>, where world leaders are expected to hash out a new agreement for rapidly cutting carbon emissions over the coming decades. During the two-week conference, 13 Biden administration cabinet officials will take part in negotiations with their foreign counterparts, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/14\/politics\/biden-cabinet-members-attending-cop26-climate\/index.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden attended the COP26 opening event Monday, calling upon the world to solve the \u201cclimate crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the decade that will determine the answer. This decade,\u201d the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/11\/01\/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-cop26-leaders-statement\/\">remarked<\/a>. \u201cThe science is clear: We only have a brief window left before us to raise our ambitions and to raise \u2014 to meet the task that\u2019s rapidly narrowing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, tens of thousands of climate diplomats, activists and business leaders are expected to travel to the conference via planes, trains and cars. The U.N. also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/29\/united-nations-cruise-ships-europe-climate-change-fossil-fuels-united-kingdom\/\">chartered<\/a> gas-guzzling cruise ships to house many of the attendees during the two-week summit.<\/p>\n<p>Barrasso\u2019s list of questions for the Biden administration officials included whether the relevant agency has made efforts to offset emissions from COP26 travel.<\/p>\n<p>The White House didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Senate Republican sent letters to several Biden administration officials, demanding information on their travels to Glasgow, Scotland, for a global climate summit.Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951078","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}