“The climate is changing. The issue is what’s the cause and what do we do about it?… The progress that we have made in a cleaner environment has been happening precisely because we have a strong free-market economy.”
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Nikki Haley
“Innovation is the only way to solve climate change…Future innovation should be kickstarted, not shut down. Unleashing innovation is the conservative solution.”
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Nikki Haley
“America has been blessed with incredible natural beauty. Everyone wants to protect it. We all want pure air, clean water, and healthy children. America has also been blessed with abundant natural resources. Everyone benefits when we use them responsibly, but the far left doesn’t want to use them at all.”
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Mike Pompeo
“Look, we all want clean air, safe drinking water. But the Paris agreement was a fantasy for elite diplomats who just wanted to virtue signal. And when President Biden re-entered this deal, I can tell you that Xi Jinping was smiling every single minute.”
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Mike Pompeo
“[I] believe that the climate is changing, that there’s a warming taking place. I’m happy to concede there is likely a human component to that.”
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Mike Pence
“What’s remarkable is that the United States has reduced CO2 more than countries that are still in the Paris Climate Accord, but we’ve done it through innovation. And we’ve done it through natural gas and fracking.”
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Chris Christie
“I think global warming is real. I don’t think that’s deniable. And I do think human activity contributes to it.”
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Rich Powell
“Conservatives have real solutions for climate. Ones that are technologically realistic, economically feasible, and politically sustainable. Over the past decade, conservatives have institutionalized big, bold goals, anchored in clean energy breakthroughs as the best solution to solving the climate challenge.”
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Rich Powell
“Climate change is an urgent challenge that merits significant policy action at every level of the federal government and private sector.”
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Heather Reams
“This caucus also understands that climate change is a global issue and that overregulating America will do nothing to affect emissions abroad. Today 85% of greenhouse gas emissions are created outside of the United States. This means that U.S. energy and climate policy must foster innovation and commercialization pathways that work in Indiana as well...
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