Wood Laminates! Biogas! GOP Displays Less-Than-Startling Technology At DC Climate Science Fair

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Minority leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Monday hosted a "climate innovation showcase" on Capitol Hill, featuring technologists working on new ways to reduce heat-trapping emissions endangering the planet.

Attendees ranged from a start-up, MOVA Technologies, Inc., seeking to recycle pollutants pulled out of coal smokestacks, to Fortune 500 electric power company Duke Energy, there to promote how it can use batteries to store power during off-peak hours. They also included a laboratory that crushes coal into potential building materials, a lumber company that makes structural beams by gluing together smaller and otherwise less useful pieces of wood and a biofuel maker that harvests methane from the emissions of dairy cows.

Altogether, the list of 18 companies, university programs, and other organizations represent what the GOP sees as the conservative solution to climate change — one with private enterprise, rather than government regulators, at the forefront of cutting emissions. Monday’s event is a culmination of a shift among some congressional Republicans away from denying or ignoring climate change toward acknowledging the warming globe, even as the party is led by President Trump, who often dismisses the problem as nonexistent.

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But most congressional Republicans have stopped short of endorsing any measure to make companies pay for putting carbon dioxide into the air. “I don't think it's just Republicans,” said Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee who is retiring at the end of the term. “Voters overall would prefer a process that doesn't put a big, heavy hand on the American economy.”

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