JD Vance - Just As Awful On Climate And Environmental Issues As You Thought He Is

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Vance’s energy and environmental agenda in the Senate has aligned closely with the Republican Party. The senator has been dismissive of concerns about climate change. “Even if there was a climate crisis, I don’t know how the way to solve it is to buy more Chinese-manufactured electric vehicles,” he said in 2022, saying the idea of an environmental crisis was “created” to please Democratic donors.

Two years earlier, Vance said society had a “climate problem” because cleaner sources of energy have not taken significant market share.He has sought to put significant blame on China for greenhouse gas emissions. In a 2023 hearing with Kevin Welsh, the Federal Aviation Administration’s top official for environmental policy, Vance criticized the Biden administration’s endorsement of climate policies from the International Civil Aviation Organization and dismissed carbon offsets in aviation as “climate reparations.”

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Vance last year introduced the “Drive American Act,” S. 2962, which would repeal the federal tax credit for electric vehicles and instead offer tax credits for U.S.-made vehicles powered only by gasoline or diesel. He also introduced legislation to double maximum penalties for climate change protesters and others who target exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art. Vance has opposed and sought to scrutinize EPA regulations, including on gasoline-powered generators and methylene chloride, a paint stripper chemical linked to cancer. He’s also dismissed environmental justice as an excuse to offshore American jobs.

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Environmental advocates who support Biden quickly denounced Trump’s choice of Vance. He has a zero percent rating from the League of Conservation Voters. “Donald Trump’s anti-climate, anti-environment agenda is reinforced with his pick of J.D. Vance as the Republican vice-presidential nominee,” David Kieve, president of EDF Action, said in a statement. EDF Action is the advocacy arm of the Environmental Defense Fund. Lori Lodes, executive director of the group Climate Power, said, “J.D. Vance is Donald Trump’s dream come true — a climate denier who is all too happy to do Big Oil’s bidding and pad their profits at the expense of working people.” Vance has called Democratic action on climate “dumb” and a “handout to Chinese companies at the expense of Ohio workers.”

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https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-j-d-vance-stacks-up-on-energy-environment-issues/