Even GOP's Flaccid Climate Non-Plans To Date Draw Sneers From Right, "Meh" From Everyone Else
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The suggested GOP policies clearly do not envision an end to fossil fuel use anytime soon. While they're generally bipartisan, they drew criticism from the left because Democrats, environmentalists and most climate policy experts say carbon capture and innovation alone come nowhere near addressing the scale of the climate change problem. Meanwhile, the GOP has a constituency of conservative advocacy and electoral organizations that still opposes anything approaching climate policy.
Club for Growth Action blasted the bills, calling them "liberal environmental policies" and saying it would not endorse any candidate who supports McCarthy's plan. Other familiar names, including Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Tom Pyle of the American Energy Alliance, quickly piled on. "Early in the year, I cautioned lawmakers that the only thing the Green New Deal could possibly hope to achieve is to lull policymakers into accepting less draconian 'reasonable alternatives' to it," Pyle said in a statement.
"Unfortunately, Republican Leader McCarthy did not heed that warning and has made the same mistake that many of his predecessors have made — you can never out-Democrat a Democrat," he said.
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), one of Capitol Hill's most outspoken climate hawks, has backed 45Q and other carbon capture bills in the past. He said yesterday he doesn't necessarily have an issue with the trillion trees bill from Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.). "They're trying to come up with a package that meets their political needs without any sincere effort to actually meet the technical, chemical, physical needs of dealing with the crisis that we face," Whitehouse said. "Who's not for trees?" he added. "But when has it ever worked?"
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