"Last week, a bipartisan group of House members made a demand of congressional leaders: Block any provisions curtailing the federal government’s ability to deal with climate change from the next spending bill.

The letter came from members of the House Climate Solutions Caucus, a bipartisan group of representatives who have vowed to find “economically-viable” ways of dealing with sea-level rise, drought and other effects of climate change.

Half of the group's 78 members are Republicans. These GOP members are bucking the rest of their party, and their president, on climate change by at the very least acknowledging that it is real, giving some progressives hope that Republicans writ large will one day again take climate change seriously. But critics say the caucus is all talk, and accuse the group of granting green credentials to Republicans without requiring any consequential votes or other actions of its members."

Dino Grandoni reports for the Washington Post May 25, 2018. [2]