Ooh!! Will GQP's Conservative Climate Caucus Continue To Talk About Doing Something About Climate?

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In a number of races, candidates backed by former President Trump are challenging incumbents that have been more open to talking about the issue of climate than many others in their party, including Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). There is also a cohort of freshmen lawmakers from the Conservative Climate Caucus, which was formed just last year, fighting to keep their seats. Tuesday’s defeat of Conservative Climate Caucus member Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) by Trump-endorsed Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) marks an early defeat for that effort, potentially weakening the Republican caucus that supports the so-called all of the above energy strategy for the coming Congress.

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Republicans are also beginning to talk more about the impacts of climate changes on beloved local environments and industries, regardless of whether they refer to them as such. Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah) often discusses the threat of wildfire and the shrinking of his home state’s ski slopes. Mace has talked about the threat of rising seas to the Marine base on Parris Island.

But while progressive climate groups say there is some overlap on, for example, innovation in new forms of batteries or carbon capture, they say Republican overtures amount to little more than a “narrative solution” aimed at giving young conservative voters talking points. From that perspective, the difference between a member like McKinley and one like Mooney “largely does not matter,” Jamal Raad of Evergreen Action told The Hill. “There’s no real Republican congressional support for climate action, at any level, anything close to the level of the scale and the scope of the crisis.”

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Over time, Raad said, “those larger trends of political power of certain industries as well as the jobs that those will create as being the thing that will really drive change on the other political end of the spectrum over years and decades.” “Even greenwashing done by Republicans” around measures like carbon capture “may actually turn into real things down the line,” he added. “But unfortunately, we don’t have enough time for that to happen.”

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https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/3487887-gop-primaries-could-help-shape-nascent-conservative-climate-push/

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1. What they know, what they say, has noting to do with what they will do when the lobbyists

come to their offices with checkbook in hand. Anyone who still considers themselves as Republicans have shown what kind of people that they are. There are no "good" Republicans. A person is either part of a solution or part of a problem; we all get to choose.