Carper Touts Clean Energy Agenda As Solution To Security, Price Woes

Senate Environment & Public Works Committee (EPW) Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) is downplaying calls to boost domestic fossil fuel supplies as a distraction from Democrats’ clean energy agenda, which he says would protect consumers from rising costs in the wake of the Ukraine war while responding to climate change. “We can end our over-reliance on foreign fossil fuel, we can drive down harmful climate emissions, we can lower energy costs for families by investing in clean energy,” Carper said during...