House GOP rolling out energy and climate plan calling for more production

House Republicans will announce a new energy and climate change strategy Thursday that supporters argue can help lower consumer costs and reduce global greenhouse gas emissions while also increasing domestic energy production.

The strategy was put together by the House Republicans’ Energy, Climate, and Conservation Task Force as a counter to President Joe Biden’s own climate change agenda, which sets out specific short- and long-term greenhouse emissions reduction targets and seeks to restrict new oil and gas leasing on federal lands, policies of which Republicans have been especially critical during this period of record fuel prices.