Graves (R-LA) Gets Slobbering Press About Climate "Concern" But Proposes, Supports Zero Legislation
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Campaign finance records show the oil and gas industry has contributed nearly $600,000 to Graves since 2013, so his role on the climate crisis committee has drawn some added attention. He's been profiled by the New Yorker, a magazine that caters to a high-brow, liberal audience, and the British newspaper The Guardian.
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Graves, who does not have a college degree, was Louisiana's top coastal adviser in the Bobby Jindal administration. Before that, he worked for Congress as an adviser to members of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce; Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; and Senate Subcommittee on Climate Change and Impacts.
Graves has not proposed climate legislation and has questioned whether legislation is needed or if government could do more to shape its priorities outside the halls of Congress. He voted against the Climate Action Now Act that the House passed in May in a 231-190 vote, with three Republicans joining Democrats in support of the bill. The bill, sponsored by Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Chair Kathy Castor, D-Florida, sought to keep the United States in the Paris climate agreement.
Graves doesn't think the agreement is needed, and he frequently points out that the United States is already the country spending the most on energy research. Emissions are already dropping here, he notes, while countries like China and India aren't addressing environmental concerns as aggressively. "I mean this is really just tremendous what's happening and what we're doing," Graves said.
But Castor recently told The Washington Examiner that she didn’t think Graves and other Republicans are fully committed to addressing climate change if they don’t support legislation. “Some Republicans are changing how they talk about this issue, but very few of them have backed legislation that would actually address the climate crisis,” she told the conservative news website. “Our hearings have provided ample reasons to act and plenty of examples of solutions that are ready right now. If they don’t support innovation, if they don’t support setting goals in line with science, what do they support?”
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https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_1015605a-213b-11ea-9856-a3d6996bbf8c.html
