Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Sunday tore into the Republican Party over its stance on climate change.
“The Republican Party is the only major political party on the planet that is explicitly dedicated to making climate change worse,” he tweeted.
“Climate change is real, caused by humans, and solvable.”
Under Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, the agency has questioned the exact impact humans have made on climate change. {mosads}
Schatz’s comments apparently came in response to a Politico story titled “The Myth of Scott Pruitt’s EPA Rollback,” which he retweeted. The story focuses on how Pruitt has stopped the agency’s focus on combatting climate change.
A report last month said the EPA sent staffers climate change talking points, encouraging staffers to highlight a lack of evidence that ties humans to climate change.
While Pruitt has maintained that he believes in climate change, he has been reluctant to tie effects to humans as the agency works to roll back a number of environmental regulations that green groups argue will speed up global warming.
After he was confirmed, Pruitt, who has recently been tangled in a web of controversies, including the recent revelation that he had rented a condo from the wife of a prominent energy lobbyist, worked quickly to approve a slew of EPA website changes that removed references to climate change and climate programs.
President Trump last year also withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.
Schatz has in the past gone after Pruitt and Republicans over climate change. In September of last year, he accused Republicans of abdicating their “moral and political responsibility” to address climate change by voting to confirm Pruitt.