So Cute!! House Conservative Climate Caucus Says Fossil Fuels A "Major Part" Of Reducing Emissions

[hatrack]

The Conservative Climate Caucus is back with new leadership and a more forceful mission. But it’s a wide-open question whether the 80-member House group will defy their fellow Republicans on efforts to roll back clean energy priorities. The group, currently led by Rep. Mariannette Miller Meeks (R-Iowa), was founded in 2021, with a focus on educating lawmakers on climate. The caucus acknowledges human-made climate change but also sees fossil fuels as a “major part” of reducing emissions.

Miller-Meeks now says it will take on more of an advocacy role as House leaders draft an ambitious party-line spending and tax bill. In an interview Thursday, Miller-Meeks, who won reelection by just 798 votes, suggested she has a ways to go before she threatens to tank a GOP package should it repeal some of her top priorities like subsidies for biofuels or carbon capture, which were part of the Democrats’ 2022 climate law.

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There might not be a red line, but those leaders have clean energy projects in their district that could be endangered. Carter has relentlessly touted a $7.6 billion electric vehicle and battery plant in his Georgia district; Kiggans has been a cheerleader for an offshore wind project in Virginia that is estimated to deliver enough electricity to power 660,000 homes.

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When asked, she said she hasn’t yet sat down with the speaker to discuss the matter in detail. Instead, she’s beginning to speak up during committee: At the House Ways and Means hearing Wednesday, she mentioned subsidies for biofuels and carbon capture are “already driving transformative investments across the energy sector.” Many are preexisting and bipartisan, she said. Similarly, Carter, who’s been an outspoken proponent of the $7.6 billion electric vehicle and battery plant in his district, did not have a hard position. “Leadership and the speaker made clear: Don’t paint yourself in the corner,” he said. “

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Ed. - Wow!! Dynamic!! She hasn't met with Speaker Creepy Youth Pastor, but she's "beginning to speak up during committee"!!

https://www.eenews.net/articles/gop-climate-caucus-has-a-new-mission-will-it-have-teeth/

[underpants]

1. Kiggans reps the VA 2nd - Eastern Shore, Va. Beach, and into "the cities"

City and county governments are separate in Virginia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%27s_2nd_congressional_district

[walkingman]

2. What a joke....I guess the solution these days is to just say anything and people will believe you.

[rurallib]

3. And there will be some media ready to write it up as a serious thought

[hatrack]

5. Yep. Even Grist, which has done some good reporting on environmental stuff, falls into this . ..

Yet another long article this month about how the American Conservation Coalition, young Republicans who "care" about the environment, is ready to make its mark on the current Congress and the Shitstain administration.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. Next they will be insisting that black is white, that there are only 8 colors in a box of crayolas,

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