Analysis: Has the Green New Deal changed Republican politics on climate change?
By JM Rieger JM Rieger Video editor for The Fix Email Bio Follow April 3 at 6:00 AM After denying the existence of climate change for years, a handful of elected Republicans now acknowledge that human activity is the primary cause and are calling for “innovative” action to address it.
Before heading the House Republican conference for six years, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers called the science around human activity and climate change “inconclusive at best.” Now she says human activity is at least “partially” responsible. And in 2011, Rep. Fred Upton , then-chairman of the committee with jurisdiction over the Environmental Protection Agency, said climate change was not “man-made.” Now he says climate change is real and must be addressed, while not explicitly acknowledging its cause.
Today, fossil fuel companies are curbing greenhouse gas emissions or calling for action to combat climate change .
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