“Next time the Biden administration says it cares about coal communities, please remember this. “By 2030 in the United States, we won’t have coal…We will not have coal plants.” GOP Senators
U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry’s promise that the U.S. won’t have coal by 2030 got a quick response from Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and other Republicans on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works.
The GOP side of the committee tweeted response suggested the Biden administration is anything but caring about those parts of the country that rely on fossil fuels.
“Next time the Biden administration says it cares about coal communities, please remember this,” tweeted the the committee minority.
Kerry had said earlier that by 2030, the US “won’t have coal…we will not have coal plants.” He told the event hosted by Bloomberg that President Biden intends to achieve a net-zero electricity grid by 2035 reported POLITICO.
A spokesman at the State department was quoted as stating,” Reaching this goal will eliminate the use of unabated fossil fuel power by 2035, and it will require dramatically slashing emissions from coal power during this decade.”
Sen. Inhofe has been critical of Biden’s energy policies saying the president is focused more on “unilateral” green policies that will hamstring the American economy.
“The reality is Washington Democrat’s climate policies are not about the climate,” he said in an October opinion piece for Fox News.
” They are, and have always been, about controlling our lives. While his climate change talking points may sound appealing to some, it will not result in the climate benefits he promises and it will come with a high economic and lifestyle cost on Americans that would be historic in its implications.”