By Steve Valk on Mar 15, 2017
12:10 pm
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
From
left, U.S. representatives Carlos Curbelo, Elise
Stefanik and Ryan Costello, lead sponsors of the
Republican climate resolution. House
Republicans introduce climate
resolution
WASHINGTON,
March 15, 2017 – Seventeen Republicans in
the U.S. House of Representatives today
introduced a resolution that acknowledges the
negative impacts of climate change “that are
expected to worsen in every region of the United
States” and calls upon the House to work on
solutions for mitigation and adaptation
efforts.
The
resolution, introduced by Rep. Carlos Curbelo
(R-FL), Rep. Elise Stefanik
(R-NY), Rep. Ryan
Costello (R-PA) and 14 other
Republicans, resolves that “the House of
Representatives commits to working
constructively, using our tradition of American
ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to
create and support economically viable, and
broadly supported private and public solutions
to study and address the causes and effects of
measured changes to our global and regional
climates, including mitigation efforts and
efforts to balance human activities that have
been found to have an impact.”
“With
forty percent of Florida’s population at risk
from sea-level rise, my state is on the front
lines of climate change,” said
Curbelo. “South Florida residents are
already beginning to feel the effects of climate
change in their daily lives – from chronic
flooding to coral bleaching to threats to our
freshwater supply in the Everglades. We
cannot ignore these challenges and every Member
of Congress has a responsibility to our
constituents and future generations to support
market-based solutions, investments, and
innovations that could alleviate the effects of
climate change and make our nation more
resilient. Our goal with this resolution is to
shift the debate from whether climate change is
real toward the tangible efforts to reduce
carbon emissions and mitigate its
effects.”
In
addition to the three lead sponsors, other
co-sponsors of the resolution are:
- Mark Amodei (NV-02)
- Don Bacon (NE-2)
- Barbara Comstock (VA-10)
- John Faso (NY-19)
- Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-8)
- John Katko (NY-24)
- Frank Lobiondo (NJ-02)
- Mia Love (UT-04)
- Brian Mast (FL-18)
- Pat Meehan (PA-07)
- Tom Reed (NY-23)
- David Reichert (WA-08)
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27)
- Mark Sanford (SC-01)
“The
risks of climate change are far too great to get
bogged down in partisan politics,” said
Citizens’ Climate Lobby Executive Director Mark
Reynolds. “With this resolution, these 17
Republicans are saying that business as usual is
unacceptable when it comes to preserving a
livable world for future generations. Hopefully,
their leadership will help us turn the page and
move forward on solutions to this critical
problem.”
Many
of the resolution’s sponsors are also members of
the bipartisan House Climate
Solutions Caucus, which is bringing
Republicans and Democrats together to discuss
and develop legislative solutions to climate
change. The caucus has 26 members, with equal
numbers from both sides of the aisle. Rep.
Ted Deutch (D-FL), who with Curbelo co-chairs
the Climate Solutions Caucus, had this to say
about the Republican resolution:
“Americans
don’t see climate change as a partisan issue,
and neither should Congress. As the Democratic
co-Chair of the bipartisan Climate Solutions
Caucus, I applaud my Republican colleagues for
introducing this important resolution on climate
change. We’re going to need lawmakers from both
sides of the aisle working together, engaging in
robust debate, following the science, and
finding bipartisan legislative responses to the
growing threats of climate change.”
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