As the year comes to a close, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., has released a new report highlighting the efforts of Senate Republicans to counter what she calls President Joe Biden’s “radical green agenda.”
Capito, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, has released a 2023 year in review report of EPW Republicans’ accomplishments and activities titled, “Countering Biden’s Radical Green Agenda with Rigorous Oversight & Real Solutions.”
The new report focuses on the efforts by Republican lawmakers to fight the administration’s “overreaching and harmful energy and environmental regulations,” according to Capito. It also highlights ongoing efforts by the Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee to deliver what Capito calls achievable solutions that protect the environment while strengthening American energy.
“This year, President Biden’s number one target for relentless regulation and executive overreach was American energy, mandating an unrealistic climate agenda that proved costly to American families and harmful to nearly every sector of the economy,” Capito said in announcing the EPW report. “In 2023, EPW Republicans set out to expose the negative impacts of these policies, conduct crucial oversight, and importantly, offer logical, bipartisan energy and environmental alternatives that — unlike the proposals of climate activists in the Biden administration — are actually based in reality.”
Capito said the climate agenda being pushed by Biden has been rejected multiple times by both Republicans and some Democrats, the U.S. Supreme Court and voters across the country, particularly in energy-producing states like West Virginia.