GQP House Comedy Club To Present New Climate "Plan" For Earth Week; Expect Trees, "Carbon Capture"

[hatrack]

EDIT

The legislative package, being spearheaded by House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, is still being assembled but is expected to include a plan to plant as many as a trillion trees, said two of the people who asked not to be identified in describing private communications. It is also expected to include a focus the research and development of low-emissions sources of power as well as the development of carbon capture technologies and natural gas plants.

The initiative, which is expected to be rolled out the week of April 19 to coincide with Earth Day on April 22, may also include language designed to hinder efforts to ban hydraulic fracturing. It could call for streamlining the process for winning a permit to build a pipeline and other infrastructure as well as mine critical minerals.

The package is also expected to include a proposed streamlining of a bedrock environmental law: the National Environmental Policy Act. A spokeswoman for McCarthy declined to comment.

Ed. - Emphasis added.

EDIT

It won’t be easy. House Republicans last year proposed fairly modest items like an expansion of a tax-credit for oil companies and measures to bury carbon dioxide in the ground and finance the development of carbon capture for natural gas power plants. It was met with immediate criticism from the right wing, which branded the plan the “Green New Deal lite.”

EDIT

https://www.miningweekly.com/article/house-gop-planning-climate-package-to-counter-democrats-2021-04-09

[multigraincracker]

1. Will they mention....

Clean Coal?

count on it.