House Republican climate change plan: Keep drilling natural gas and plant a trillion trees

Photo caption: Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., speaks at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington on May 31, 2023. Photo credit: Jose Luis Magana / AP Images. Article by Stephen Groves and The Associated Press. Fortune – July 18, 2023.

As Speaker Kevin McCarthy visited a natural gas drilling site in northeast Ohio to promote House Republicans’ plan to sharply increase domestic production of energy from fossil fuels last month, the signs of rising global temperatures could not be ignored. Smoke from Canadian wildfires hung in the air. When the speaker was asked about climate change and forest fires, he was ready with a response: Plant a trillion trees. […]

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