Congressman Mo Brooks Cosponsors Bills to Block America Joining Damaging Paris Climate Accord

Press Release

Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) is an original cosponsor of Congressman Chip Roy's (TX-21) and Congressman Lauren Boebert's (CO-03) two separate bills to block the U.S. from rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement absent Senate ratification of the Paris Climate Accord as treaty.

Congressman Brooks said, "Let's be clear about one thing, President Biden's Executive Order 'rejoining' the Paris Climate Accord is unconstitutional and illegal absent Senate ratification pursuant to Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution."

Brooks continued, "On a policy basis, America's agreeing to the one-sided terms of the Paris Climate Accord is just plain dumb on a number of levels. It is dumb because it requires struggling American taxpayers to give away tens of billions of dollars to other countries at a time America is already drowning in $27 trillion in debt. [1] [2] Worst yet, it costs struggling American families good-paying manufacturing and energy jobs. For example, the Paris Climate Accord is estimated to hammer America's economy with a $3 trillion cut in gross domestic product and 6.5 million lost industrial sector jobs over the next two decades.[3] Even worse, that shift in manufacturing and industrial production actually worsens the world's pollution levels because it shifts production from environmentally conscious America to countries like China and India that have abysmal pollution control laws."

Brooks concluded, "Under the Paris Climate Accord, China and India, two of the biggest polluters on Earth, have no new air pollution control obligations until 2030, at the earliest! Contrast China and India's horrific pollution control laws with America's record! Without a Paris Climate Accord, America's carbon dioxide emissions have been and are being reduced! Between the years 2000 and 2014, the United States reduced its carbon emissions by more than 18 percent! Further, over the past 50 years, America has been the world's environmental leader. No country on Earth has done more to reduce pollution by cleaning our air, cleaning our water and properly disposing of hazardous waste. The Paris Climate Accord will handicap the American economy and result in manufacturing jobs being outsourced to countries that don't have America's strong pollution controls. The result? A less prosperous America and more global pollution. A lose-lose situation."

Source