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Republican Lisa Murkowski says it’s time for her party to take climate change seriously.
“Why is it politically charged to say climate change?” the Alaska senator asked during a speech on Wednesday. “I see in my state the impact we have from warming temperatures.” She makes a good point. Alaska is experiencing coastal erosion, bigger storms, and melting permafrost. So … why did she just open up new areas for oil drilling?
Murkowski only backed the Senate’s tax overhaul last December after a provision was added to open up 1.5 million acres of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. The provision potentially allows between 4 and 12 billion barrels of oil to be extracted and burned.
Her voting record on environmental policy has earned her a lifetime score of 19 percent from the League of Conservation Voters. Compare that to the Senate’s average score of 50 percent.
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