Right-Wing Backlash Greets Modest GOP Foray Into Climate Change
- Proposal derided as ‘Green New Deal lite,’ bowing to liberals
- Outrage shows hard road for Republicans newly embracing issue
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy had barely finished presenting his party’s modest plan to fight climate change when conservatives began piling on in opposition.
The free market-group American Energy Alliance dismissed it as a “Republican-led Green New Deal lite” that amounted to a “climate messaging exercise.” The libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute called it “bad policy that will not bring any political relief.”
And the Club for Growth vowed to not endorse any candidate who backs what it called the “liberal” Republican climate plan.
“Besides hurting our economy, these measures will not make a single environmentalist vote for a Republican and only alienate conservatives across the country,” said Club for Growth President David McIntosh.