Amid Biden’s attempts to cut planet-heating emissions, Republicans remain mired in the protection of fossil fuel interests, using aggressive, and sometimes invented, claims in the process. “Plenty of members of the [Republican] conference are still in perpetual skeptic mode,” Peter Meijer, a 33-year-old Republican House representative, told the Guardian. Moves at the state level on climate change have also veered towards the extreme. “There are plenty of alternative, market-based policies for climate change but instead we just have this grab-bag of predictable, reflexive responses. Biden’s allies worry that the ability to combat the climate crisis will be hampered without a sea change in Republican opposition.

Source: The Guardian May 14, 2021 06:01 UTC