John Curtis, the new Utah senator who made his name in the House by pushing conservatives to acknowledge climate change, has a new target: President Donald Trump.
In fact, the soft-spoken 64-year-old was optimistic he might be able to get through to the man who just four months ago suggested climate change simply meant that the sea level might “rise one-eighth of an inch in 400 years, … and you’d have more seafront property.”
Curtis, who was selected to chair an Environment and Public Works subcommittee last week, thinks he could do with Trump what he did with more than the 80 House Republicans he corralled to his Conservative Climate Caucus, which he launched in 2021 with the goal of educating the GOP on climate policies in a space that embraces conservative, free market principles.
“We’re just not as far apart as he might think or as other people might think,” Curtis told POLITICO’s E&E News last month, a comment sure to raise eyebrows. READ FULL ARTICLE