Tenney urged to support conservation efforts and take climate change threat seriously
Editor:
Congratulations to Congresswoman Claudia Tenney on her sweeping election victory last year. When I travel to DC this week, I will urge her to use her mandate to address climate change and follow in the footsteps of the Republican environmental giants of the 20th century like Roosevelt and Nixon.
The American people know that there is 99 percent consensus in the scientific community as to the link between climate change and human activities. Recent wildfires have highlighted the continued risk of CO2 induced warming.
One policy that is addressing CO2 emissions is The Inflation Reduction Act. The policy serves to spur private investment, clean our electric grid and reduce costs for consumers. Our district benefited from this when Plug Power got $387 million for their facility in the STAMP industrial park. I hope that Congresswoman Claudia Tenney will work to preserve the clean energy provisions of the IRA.
As a lifelong Republican and a member of Citizen’s Climate Lobby, I know that Conservation is Conservative!
Rob Johnson
Medina
