{"id":30411,"date":"2022-12-12T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/?p=30411"},"modified":"2024-02-06T15:55:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:55:43","slug":"conservatives-are-cutting-a-clear-path-to-solving-climate-change-heres-how-daily-caller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/our-take\/conservatives-are-cutting-a-clear-path-to-solving-climate-change-heres-how-daily-caller\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives Are Cutting A Clear Path To Solving Climate Change. Here\u2019s How (Daily Caller)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This op-ed was originally published by The Daily Caller on December 9, 2022. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/12\/09\/opinion-conservatives-are-cutting-a-clear-path-to-solving-climate-change-heres-how-rich-powell\/\">here<\/a> to read the entire piece.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congressional leadership transitions bring forth new committee assignments, new priorities and a new energy policy vision. While some suggest a new Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives will work to undo recent efforts on addressing climate change, we disagree with that premise.<\/p>\n<p>Look, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/12\/09\/key-inflation-stays-stubbornly-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">economic inflation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/prices.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high gas and electricity prices<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/08\/russia-ukraine-war-at-a-glance-what-we-know-on-day-288-of-the-invasion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unrest in Eastern Europe<\/a>, increasing global carbon dioxide emissions and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/supply-chain-chaos-brands-chase-trends-victorias-secret-2022-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">global supply chain chaos<\/a> are all realities. Combined, there is an ongoing global energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But how to solve this crisis has created false choices in Washington. Debates on renewables versus fossils, economy versus environment, or 100% global emissions reduction versus inaction in the U.S. are clouding the path forward on the global challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, no nation, government or business will achieve climate goals and see economic success unless we eliminate those false choices and leverage all energy resources on the table.<\/p>\n<p>We need to focus on policies that make new and emerging clean energy technologies more affordable, not policies that make existing energy more expensive and harder to produce.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have historically proposed top-down climate policies like mandates, heavy regulations, or new taxes. Yet global emissions, the only real measure of success or failure in solving climate change, continue to increase&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/12\/09\/opinion-conservatives-are-cutting-a-clear-path-to-solving-climate-change-heres-how-rich-powell\/\">here<\/a> to read the full article<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is real momentum around rational solutions that can both solve the climate challenge and support a healthy economy. And we are not merely suggesting you give conservatives a chance on climate \u2014 you should be excited about their energy, climate and conservation policy agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":30409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"wds_primary_category":19,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[26,17,28,45],"class_list":["post-30411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-take","tag-hydrogen","tag-innovation","tag-natural-gas","tag-op-ed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}