West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey is leading a coalition of 17 states, calling on the Trump Administration to continue putting America first by declining to participate in the upcoming United Nations’ Climate Change Conference, or COP-30. The conference is scheduled for next month in Brazil.
Sending a delegation to COP-30 would do little more than lend credibility to the COP’s policies. Like the Green-New-Deal, the COP policies harm our national security, energy independence and economic interests, but on an international scale.
“Now, more than ever, America needs to take a strong stance against the anti-coal, anti-gas and anti-oil policies that the COP promotes—policies driven by adverse actors and propped up by often contested climate theory. If the United States participates in COP-30, it would serve only to legitimize such unsound science and policies,” Attorney General McCuskey wrote in the letter to the Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Energy, and EPA Administrator.
The COP’s policy initiatives disregard the realities of renewable energy generation. Solar and wind power have significant reliability issues, and they are more expensive than traditional energy sources. Coal, gas, and oil can generate affordable power to meet demand. Solar and wind cannot.
Additionally, COP’s climate-finance proposals seek to require the American people to pay billions of dollars to fund COP objectives globally.
Attorneys General from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming have joined the West Virginia led letter.
Read a copy of the letter here.