by Chelsea Henderson | Feb 9, 2017 | EcoRight News
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who still awaits a vote by the U.S. Senate to become the next Secretary of Energy, indicated he believes the U.S. “can achieve both economic growth and emissions reductions with the right policies” in response to written...
by Chelsea Henderson | Feb 9, 2017 | EcoRight News
As reported yesterday, elder Republican statesmen, economists and business leaders unveiled support for a conservative approach to climate change: a carbon dividend. The $40/ton tax on carbon emissions, which would ramp up over time, would generate a rebate of...
by Chelsea Henderson | Feb 8, 2017 | EcoRight News
Florida’s Rep. Carlos Curbelo, who with delegation mate Rep. Ted Deutsch co-founded the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus, said he thinks President Donald Trump’s advisors “understand the issue” of climate change. “And I believe...
by Chelsea Henderson | Feb 8, 2017 | EcoRight News
Today, leading conservative business leaders, statesmen and economists will meet at the White House to advocate a conservative market-based solution to climate change. The plan would repeal the Clean Power Plan and other Obama-era climate regulations in lieu of a...
by Chelsea Henderson | Feb 6, 2017 | EcoRight News
At a raucous town hall meeting over the weekend, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA-4) responded to a variety of constituent issues, including calls to support climate change science. “In any scientific arena you are seeing a very vigorous debate over the extent to which...
by Chelsea Henderson | Feb 3, 2017 | EcoRight News
This week’s must read: The New Climate Change Evangelists are… Conservatives?! (Hey, we got a laugh over the “new” part too… we’ve been at it for awhile.) This week’s must watch: I’m just one person: what can I do?...