Gardner (R-CO) Offer Meaningless Green Spew In Senate Run: Will "Innovation" Hide Shitty Votes?
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Oil and gas industry political action committees and individuals giving $200 or more contributed $233,471 toward Gardner’s re-election in the first half of 2019, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That made him the top Senate recipient of oil and gas donations so far this year. His campaign also collected $5,500 from alternative energy interests, according to CRP. That’s a small fraction of the $4 million contributed by all donors, according to Bloomberg Government data.
Gardner—who in a 2014 campaign video asked, “So what’s a Republican like me doing at a wind farm?"—has made clean energy a central theme. The American Wind Energy Association awarded him its 2018 “Wind Champion” award.
He also voted to scrap stream-protection regulations and oil and gas methane limits; backed the 2017 tax bill that opened part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling; and voted to confirm Trump nominees that environmental groups strongly opposed, including former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Pruitt’s successor Andrew Wheeler, and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.
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On climate change, Gardner favors technological innovations—carbon capture technologies and more funding for National Renewable Energy Laboratory facilities in his state, among them—and said Colorado has already seen effects, from years of drought to increasing pine beetle infestations. His first 2019 hearing chairing a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee panel focused on climate science research, which he opened by saying he accepts the “consensus within the scientific community.” He co-chairs a new Roosevelt Conservation Caucus made up of Republicans hoping to highlight environmental action.
Ed. - That's nice. Would you like a pat on the head, you smarmy fuck?
https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/environment-and-energy/colorados-gardner-mixes-renewables-fossil-fuels-in-2020-bid