In a campaign season where energy and climate change have become partisan lightning rods, a small but growing group of Republicans are pushing back against their party’s orthodoxy on both issues.The central planners of the Republican party.
Leading members of the Christian Coalition and the Young Republicans on Monday will launch nationwide the Young Conservatives for Energy Reform, a grassroots group aimed at engaging Republicans on the goals of cutting oil use, backing alternative energy and clean-air regulations, and fighting climate change.
The announcement comes less than a month after the rollout of a new conservative-run campaign and think tank, the Energy and Enterprise Institute, aimed at winning Republicans over to the idea of using the tax code to cut carbon pollution and fossil fuel use.
Monday, August 20, 2012
'Conservative' Group Shows Their Hostility to the Free Market: Plans to Push Republicans Toward Action on Climate, Cleaner Energy
The National Journal reports: