Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) called attention to China’s massive carbon emissions in the face of President Biden’s increasingly stringent climate control policies.
“China pumps more CO2 into the atmosphere than the U.S., Japan, and the European Union COMBINED. So why is the Biden admin more concerned with kneecapping the U.S. economy with radical green mandates than holding Beijing accountable?” Kennedy tweeted.
The Biden administration says their goal is to “ensure the U.S. achieves a 100% clean energy economy and reaches net-zero emissions no later than 2050.”
However, China is the number one emitter of CO2 in the world, releasing more than double the carbon than that emitted by the US.
The United States has reduced its carbon emissions by almost 80 million tons in recent years. Yet, the Biden administration has made green policies a major focus, despite the impact on the economy.
In a November 2022 brief, the White House stated that it plans to work with other countries to reduce global temperatures. The brief mentioned Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Gambia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, Norway, Rwanda, the Caribbean, Uganda, UK, Ukraine, and Zambia. There was no mention of China, despite its status as the world’s greatest emitter of carbon dioxide.
According to a report from the Rhodium Group, China’s emissions have tripled over the last thirty years. 27% of emissions were from China, followed by the U.S. at 11% and India at 6.6%.
COP27, a world summit on climate change, brought together nearly 200 representatives from around the globe, but several delegates from other countries expressed concern that the U.S. and China would not effectively work together toward the stated environmental goals.
The White House stated in November that the United States and China have begun climate talks.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is cracking down on radical green mandates for its own citizens.
According to the House Ways and Means Committee, Biden’s environmental policies are causing severe impacts on the economy.
“When President Biden rammed through $300 billion in higher taxes, the bulk of it fell on Made-in-America manufacturing,” according to the report from Ways and Means.
The $25 billion energy tax hikes proposed by the Democrats will hinder U.S. production and drastically raise the costs on American families, the report stated.
Gas stoves are the latest target of the Biden Administration, through possible regulations from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
CPSC commissioner Richard Trumka, Jr. stated in December: “We ought to keep that possibility of a [gas stove] ban in mind, as you follow along, because it's a powerful tool in our toolbox and it's a real possibility here.”
Republicans quickly took action to stand up against the proposal.
“This proposal to ban natural gas stoves is nothing more than a backdoor attempt to federalize the radical agenda to ban natural gas,” wrote Rep. Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Biden’s proposed policies follow the trend of the radical policies that California has enacted. In California, residents were told in recent months to not charge their electric vehicles and set their thermostats to 78 degrees or higher in summer heat. They also experienced multiple blackouts as a result of power grid overload.
Ninety House Republicans joined to write a letter to President Biden with their concerns over a potential gas stove ban.
They wrote:
This kind of intrusion into the homes of Americans by the federal government as a way of forcing rush-to-green, liberal policies is the ‘nanny state’ at its worst.
Banning natural gas stoves is not about public safety – it is another example of government control; like other policies we have seen from your administration, to tell Americans what kinds of cars they can drive, how they heat their homes, and how to live their lives.
The White House’s stated goals are to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52% in 2030, reach 100% carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035, and achieve a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.
