In the News Republican ‘climate caucus’ offered little support for Paris deal
Most Republicans “don’t think this is a top priority,” Catrina Rorke, senior energy policy fellow with free-market think tank R Street Institute, said of the Paris agreement in an email. Even deeper, there’s a “big stigma in conservative circles where loyalty is such a virtue” that backing Trump’s decision “matters more than their personal thoughts on Paris,” surmised Danny Richter, legislative and science policy director with Citizens Climate Lobby, which has been trying to grow the Climate Solutions Caucus.
