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Ted Cruz presidential campaign, 2016/Natural resources
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 Ted Cruz |
U.S. Senator (Assumed office: 2013) |
 Republican candidate: |
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This page was current as of the 2016 election.
Energy development
- On April 16, 2016, Cruz rejected the Obama administration's regulation of the coal industry while speaking at the Wyoming Republican state convention. He pledged, “America is the Saudi Arabia of coal, and we are going to develop our industry.”[2]
- On December 1, 2015, Ted Cruz’s campaign asked for an ad released by America's Renewable Future, “an advocacy group that champions the ethanol-friendly federal mandate,” to be removed from Iowa radio stations. The advertisement says, "Politicians like Ted Cruz support subsidies for Big Oil, but want to end support for ethanol. Cruz backs policies that threaten rural Iowa and thousands of jobs." According to the Des Moines Register, “Cruz campaign aides say it's incorrect because Cruz is opposed to all energy subsidies, including for oil companies.”[3]
- Cruz sponsored S.2170 - the American Energy Renaissance Act of 2014, which proposed lifting multiple regulations on energy producing industries.[4]
- In an op-ed that appeared in the National Review during his 2012 Senate campaign, Cruz wrote, "Currently, the Obama Administration is using the alleged presence of a lizard to try to stop oil and gas exploration in West Texas. Even more ominously, the EPA has launched 'investigations' into hydraulic fracturing, a long-used drilling process that has recently unlocked vast new reserves in both natural gas and oil. These new American energy reserves are poised to create countless new jobs and drastically reduce our dependence on foreign energy supplies. But if the Obama administration succeeds in banning hydraulic fracturing, tens of thousands of jobs will be lost and America will be left even more dependent on foreign dictators for our energy needs. We can and should vigilantly protect clean air and water while aggressively developing these new resources and new jobs."[5]
Cap and trade
Keystone XL Pipeline
- In 2014, Cruz co-sponsored S.2280 - "A bill to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline."[6]
Climate change
- On December 8, 2015, Ted Cruz held a hearing to debate whether there was scientific evidence showing climate change was manmade. He discussed his position in a December 9, 2015, interview with NPR, saying, “The scientific evidence doesn't support global warming. For the last 18 years, the satellite data - we have satellites that monitor the atmosphere. The satellites that actually measure the temperature showed no significant warming whatsoever. … Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.”[7]
- Cruz announced December 2, 2015, that he would hold a Senate hearing December 8, 2015, to question the degree to which climate change is a man-made phenomenon. “The four witnesses scheduled to appear at the hearing are all prominent climate change skeptics,” according to Bloomberg. Cruz is chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness. The announcement came after President Barack Obama returned from attending a global summit in Paris on climate change, where he expressed confidence that neither Republicans in Congress nor those running to replace him would be able to derail his plans to reduce U.S. carbon emissions.[8]
- In August 2015, Cruz accused government researchers of “cooking the books” to make it appear that global warming was supported by scientific data. “If you look at satellite data for the last 18 years, there’s been zero recorded warming. The satellite says it ain’t happening,” Cruz said.[9]
- In 2014, Cruz co-sponsored S 1324 - National Energy Tax Repeal Act, which proposed prohibiting "the head of a federal agency from promulgating any regulation relating to power sector carbon pollution standards or any substantially similar regulation on or after June 25, 2013, unless that regulation is explicitly authorized by an Act of Congress."[10]
Endangered species
- In 2014, Ted Cruz co-sponsored S.2635 - the 21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act, which proposed requiring that the data used to determine that a species is endangered be published on the Internet.[11]
Environmental Protection Agency
- In 2014, Cruz co-sponsored S.2161 - the EPA Employment Impact Analysis Act, which proposed prohibiting "the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from proposing or finalizing any major rule under the Clean Air Act (CAA) until after the Administrator: (1) completes an economy-wide analysis capturing the costs and effects across industry sectors and markets in the United States of the implementation of major rules promulgated under the CAA; and (2) establishes a process to update such analysis at least semiannually, in order to provide for the currently required continuing evaluation of potential loss or shifts in employment."[12]
Recent news
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See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Politico, "Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race," May 3, 2016
- ↑ Reuters, "Ted Cruz wins Wyoming Republican presidential nominating contest," April 17, 2016
- ↑ The Des Moines Register, "Cruz asks Iowa radio stations to yank 'false' attack ad," December 1, 2015
- ↑ Congress.gov, "S.2170," accessed March 6, 2015
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 National Review, "A Growth and Jobs Agenda," accessed March 5, 2015
- ↑ Congress.gov, "S.2280 - A bill to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline.," accessed December 10, 2014
- ↑ NPR, "Scientific Evidence Doesn't Support Global Warming, Sen. Ted Cruz Says," December 9, 2015
- ↑ Bloomberg, "Hearing on Whether Global Warming Science Is 'Data or Dogma,'" December 2, 2015
- ↑ TIME, "Ted Cruz Says Climate-Change Fears Falsified by Scientists and Politicians," August 2, 2015
- ↑ Congress.gov, "S.1324 - National Energy Tax Repeal Act," accessed December 10, 2014
- ↑ Congress.gov, "S.2635 - 21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act," accessed December 10, 2014
- ↑ Congress.gov, "S.2161 - EPA Employment Impact Analysis Act," accessed December 10, 2014
