Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumHaley Says Global Warming Is Real: Proposes "Drill Baby Drill" And "Energy Dominance" As "Responses"
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She positions herself as a moderate alternative to frontrunner Trump and the chaos that follows him. The American Conservation Coalition Action, a conservative environmental organization, gives the former ambassador its highest ranking among Republican presidential candidates for efforts to address climate change. However, beyond acknowledging the reality of climate change, there is little daylight between Haley and Trump on climate policy.
Earlier this fall, Haley denigrated the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in reducing carbon emissions in U.S. history, as a communist manifesto of green energy handouts that she would repeal if elected.
At a recent town hall meeting at the Saddle Up Saloon in Kingston, New Hampshire, she boasted about the part she played in pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement. Haley added that if she is elected president, the U.S. will be energy dominant. We will get the EPA out of the way, she said at the Jan. 3 event. We will speed up the permitting process, well get our pipelines going, well do the Keystone pipeline, well export as much liquefied natural gas as we can.
Haleys focus on a drill-baby-drill form of energy dominance while obstructing climate action has been a recurring theme starting with her time as governor of South Carolina. Soon after she took office in 2011, the states Department of Natural Resources (DNR) drafted a detailed report on the impacts of climate change that was subsequently buried, according to reporting by The State, which suggested a Haley appointee may have been to blame. The Haley appointed board of DNR ousted the longtime DNR chief around that time, and then sat on the report for over a year, John Tynan, president of the Conservation Voters of South Carolina, said.
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But his U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, answered the question in a new way this weekend.
President Trump believes the climate is changing, she said on CNNs State of the Union. And he believes pollutants are part of that equation. So that is the fact.
If so, its quite a reversal for Trump, who spent years publicly bashing the idea of global warming as a hoax and total con job in books, interviews and tweets. He openly challenged the scientific consensus that the climate is changing and man-made carbon emissions are largely to blame.