Former Trump/Inhofe Staffer Starting GOP Climate Group To "Find Common Ground", Blahblahblahblahblah

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George David Banks, who was President Trump's international energy adviser and an aide to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), is teaming up with a handful of other Republicans to advance climate policies aimed at securing conservative support. They think their party has faltered by ceding the climate policy space to the left, and they want to get back in the game. "We want to position the GOP in a way that the Republican Party is negotiating from a position of strength, because right now the Republican Party doesn't have a real climate policy," Banks said Friday in an interview.

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Banks and his colleagues are trying a different approach. Rather than tackling climate change through sweeping legislation like a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade program — which most Republicans are leery to support — they envision kicking off a national policy debate to find areas of common ground on climate.



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They're sure to face criticism from the left that their policies aren't aggressive enough to combat climate change. Some argue there's no hope for meaningful climate change policy with Trump in the White House. "The main obstacle to climate action by Republicans today is not primarily economic, but instead Trump's nihilistic political strategy that risks the security and well-being of average Americans by inciting anti-science extremism among his base," said Paul Bledsoe, strategic adviser at the Progressive Policy Institute. "While this new effort might matter at the margins, it doesn't confront the big lies at the heart of the Republican Party under Trump. It seems only an election can do that."

Leaders of the new group say they're not eyeing specific legislation or policies yet. Rather, they're pursuing broad goals, like accounting for economic disparities among states; advancing innovation in renewable, nuclear and fossil fuel energy technologies; and opposing shareholder activism that seeks to curb domestic fossil fuel production.

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https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060090015

[muntrv]

1. He can eat tarballs and drink frackwater and die.

[SamKnause]

2. Shove a snowball up your ass Sen.Jim Inhofe !!!