First appearance on Fox: Right-wing climate and energy groups are urging House Republican leaders to step up their opposition to President Biden's green energy policies.
The letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and Majority House members said, “In addition to the 2023 climate science claims falling far short of reality or honesty, President Biden's Green New Deal on Climate Change “The policy agenda is also rapidly melting down, and we are on the countdown to disaster.” said leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana).
The letter was accompanied by a 13-page report arguing that claims made this year about phenomena such as rising global temperatures and declining monarch butterfly populations are false.
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Right-wing climate and energy groups are calling on Chairman Mike Johnson to step up his opposition to President Biden's green energy policies. (Getty Images)
“It seems like not a day goes by that I don't hear about some kind of EV.” [electric vehicle] disaster or problem. Sourcing key materials and components from supply chains that include child slave labor in the Congo and communist China. Decline in consumer demand due to high prices, inconvenience, poor performance or breakdowns. Economic losses, layoffs, and labor issues in the auto industry. “EVs are becoming a case study in government industrial policy failure, given the complete waste of taxpayer money through subsidies and programs under the Inflation Control Act,” reads one of the highlights of the letter. .
“Taxpayers are subsidizing this disaster by $50,000 per EV over 10 years, which is a subsidy of $17.33 per gallon of gasoline. , there's no chance that EVs will improve the climate, or the environment. ”
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Regarding offshore wind power, the letter said: “Offshore wind power, like electric vehicles, is not only the most expensive form of electricity generation, but no amount of offshore wind power production has the potential to improve weather, climate, or the environment. No,” he said.
The letter came after the House of Representatives disapproved of Biden's EV charging station requirement. (Yuri Gripas/Abaka/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
This comes after the House of Representatives voted to disapprove President Biden's “Buy America” requirements for taxpayer-funded EV charging stations.
The resolution aims to overturn the president's exemption from Buy America requirements for electric vehicle chargers. Republican lawmakers argued that the exemption would benefit Chinese manufacturers that dominate the EV charger supply chain. A counterpart bill in the Senate, led by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, was passed in November.
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Onshore wind turbines rotate in Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
However, the signatories of this letter include the Heartland Institute, the Energy and Environmental Law Institute, the American Energy Institute (AEI), the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), the International Coalition for Climate Science (ICSC), Includes energy and climate truth experts. , has suggested that Prime Minister Johnson needs to do more to crack down on Biden's policies.
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“The false claims used to support the Green New Deal, and the policy failures that followed, have undermined our economy, our national security, and our It is endangering the freedom and standard of living of people.”
“We hope you will keep an eye on these developments as Congress grapples with these important issues in 2024 and beyond.”
Fox News Digital’s Thomas Catenacci contributed to this report
