Lobbyists for fossil fuel companies are already plotting how to short circuit climate action in The House of Representatives.
“Republicans are expected to retake the House of Representatives, and they are champing at the bit to do some oversight to try to change the law where they can,” Allison Cunningham, the gas association’s top lobbyist, said at a conference in Minneapolis with other gas industry executives last month, according to a recording of the event theRepresentative Bill Johnson, a Republican congressperson from Ohio and a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House of Representatives, said in...
The natural gas industry has been lobbying aggressively in support of legislation passed in at least 21 states that limits the ability of local governments such as New York City and multiple communities in California to imposing bans on the installation of gas appliances in new homes. Energy efficiency is critical to addressing the inexorable rise in average global temperatures. One of the primary reasons to drive an electric car is that it converts up to 95% of the electricity in its battery into forward motion. A typical car with an gasoline engine is lucky to be 25% efficient.
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