Remark | Remarks | THE NEWSROOM | Republican LeaderSkip to primary navigation Skip to content×Close THE NEWSROOMRemarks Press Releases The Leader Board Op-Eds Videos SENATE RESOURCESRepublican Senators Committees Congressional Record Congress.gov Senate Floor Webcast ABOUT LEADER McCONNELL×Close THE NEWSROOMRemarks Press Releases The Leader Board Op-Eds Videos SENATE RESOURCESRepublican Senators Committees Congressional Record Congress.gov Senate Floor Webcast ABOUT LEADER McCONNELLxxsearchxMENUFacebookTwitterInstagramFacebookTwitterInstagramVisit Senator McConnell's site here THE NEWSROOMRemarks Press Releases The Leader Board Op-Eds Videos SENATE RESOURCESRepublican Senators Committees Congressional Record Congress.gov Senate Floor Webcast ABOUT LEADER McCONNELLxxsearchxMENUHomeTHE NEWSROOMRemarks12.14.23Biden Admin. Strangles American Energy While China Surges Forward‘Last year, Beijing green-lit four times as much new coal power as they did the year before. But the Biden Administration apparently wants us to believe it’s American producers and job creators and workers who aren’t pulling their weight.’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding left-wing climate policy:“This week, the United Nations wrapped up its latest conference on climate change. World leaders took private jets to Dubai, and the Biden Administration’s Special Climate Envoy, John Kerry, returned triumphant with… a joint statement condemning the evils of coal power.“Elite liberals sure are obsessed with killing jobs in places like Kentucky. But that’s only the half of it.“Yet again, the maximum hardships the Biden Administration is happy to heap on American workers and consumers are producing no meaningful benefits on the world stage.“The past three years have been an endless parade of canceled permits and new regulations that make it harder than ever to produce affordable and reliable American energy.“By cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline on Day One, President Biden also cancelled as many as 59,000 jobs needed to build it.“And now, the President’s envoy has returned with another meaningless pledge that doesn’t even compel the world’s biggest emitters of carbon.“Just look at the numbers. U.S. emissions are projected to fall by 4% this year. Meanwhile, China’s are projected to increase by twice as much!“Last year, Beijing green-lit four times as much new coal power as they did the year before. But the Biden Administration apparently wants us to believe its American producers and job creators and workers who aren’t pulling their weight.“So, the UN climate conference is a good reminder that the elite left-wing obsession with self-inflicted climate penance is not just an American problem.“Canada’s liberal government, for its part, has a bold new plan: paying farmers to make sure their cattle don’t burp so much.“Apparently, Canada’s plan is built around a carbon credit – the nebulous commodity that supposedly negates carbon emissions from activities like flying private jets.“Except in this case, the subjects aren’t elites looking to ease their conscience on the way to a conference in Dubai. They’re the workers who put food on the table!“Canada’s so-called ‘Reducing Methane Emissions from Beef Cattle’ proposal would grant carbon credits to farmers who feed their cows special diets to reduce burping.“Well, it sounds an awful lot like the way Washington bureaucrats try to tell middle-class Americans what kind of car to drive and what kind of stove to use.“It sounds entirely ridiculous.”###Related Issues: Coal, EnergyPrintEmailTweetPreviousTHE NEWSROOMSENATE RESOURCESABOUT LEADER McCONNELLFacebookTwitterInstagram
