House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent nearly $500,000 on private jet travel despite saying the climate crisis is “Code Red for Humanity.”
The Federal Election Commission reported that Pelosi’s campaign paid two private aviation companies a total of $489,164.85 between October 2020 and December 2021. A light jet that seats six produces about 2 tons of carbon emissions per hour, according to Compare Private Planes.
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The jet-setting is at odds with Pelosi’s ambitious climate legislation unveiled in 2020 to combat pollution by outlawing the production of gas-powered cars by 2035.
The California Democrat discussed pollution while attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Scotland with 20 other congressional Democrats in November.
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“For me, it’s a religious thing,” Pelosi said at the event. “I believe this is God’s creation, and we have a moral obligation to be good stewards.”
In a press release leading up to the conference, Pelosi said climate crisis is the existential threat of our time.
“As the world faces ‘Code Red for Humanity’ because of the climate crisis, America has the great responsibility and opportunity to meet this moment,” she said. “Led by President Biden and the Democratic Congress, we will do just that.”
Pelosi comes from a state that has the strictest pollution standards in the nation. This stems from choking pollution in the 1970s, which caused California to have “smog alerts” that forced children on playgrounds inside and curtailed outdoor activity in many jobs.
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The air is vastly improved and no longer has alerts, but critics say the state has taken the problem too far by putting extreme pollution controls on cars with routine “smog checks” and gasoline that costs $1.50 a gallon more than neighboring Nevada.
