James Talarico (Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images for Vox Media) Texas’s far-left Democratic Senate nominee, James Talarico, says he supports his state’s enormous oil and gas industry. Which is funny because he was a leading climate activist in the Texas State Legislature, introducing a bill that sought to “stop climate denialism” and “inspire a new generation of climate activists” by, of course, mandating that every K-12 public school teach kids about “the long-term problem of human-caused climate change and its effects.” Talarico also authored a Green New Deal-style bill that would have implemented statewide green energy mandates. And in 2019, he joined a world-wide school walkout protest inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg during which participants “called for a drastic reduction in the use of fossil fuels.” Talarico posted a photo from the so-called Youth Climate Strike. “Students around the world are walking out of school to save our planet,” he wrote on Facebook at the time. “It’s time for the grown-ups to follow their lead.” Which super-supporter of the oil and gas industry hasn’t? Talarico said he championed the climate education bill because he was “so proud of the young people stepping up to push legislators like me to address the climate crisis. But we need millions more.” He unveiled the legislation in March 2021, around the same time he introduced the Texas Climate Action Act, “which would have required the state to cut its total carbon emissions in half by 2030 and by 90 percent by 2050,” our Thomas Catenacci writes. None of these bills got anywhere in Texas’s GOP-controlled Legislature. https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hQgV!,w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F900cb4b0-d0e8-4bef-bc70-42ecb93f6e91_2048x1532.jpeg Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Texas Democratic Senate Nominee James Talarico Sought To Mandate Climate Change Instruction in Texas Schools To Create ‘New Generation of Climate Activists’ Plus, El-Sayed campaign surrogate shared since-deleted posts praising Hezbollah and Free Beacon columnist Mike Watson previews US-Iran talks Eliana Johnson Apr 10 READ IN APP James Talarico (Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images for Vox Media) Texas’s far-left Democratic Senate nominee, James Talarico, says he supports his state’s enormous oil and gas industry. Which is funny because he was a leading climate activist in the Texas State Legislature, introducing a bill that sought to “stop climate denialism” and “inspire a new generation of climate activists” by, of course, mandating that every K-12 public school teach kids about “the long-term problem of human-caused climate change and its effects.” Talarico also authored a Green New Deal-style bill that would have implemented statewide green energy mandates. And in 2019, he joined a world-wide school walkout protest inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg during which participants “called for a drastic reduction in the use of fossil fuels.” Talarico posted a photo from the so-called Youth Climate Strike. “Students around the world are walking out of school to save our planet,” he wrote on Facebook at the time. “It’s time for the grown-ups to follow their lead.” Which super-supporter of the oil and gas industry hasn’t? Talarico said he championed the climate education bill because he was “so proud of the young people stepping up to push legislators like me to address the climate crisis. But we need millions more.” He unveiled the legislation in March 2021, around the same time he introduced the Texas Climate Action Act, “which would have required the state to cut its total carbon emissions in half by 2030 and by 90 percent by 2050,” our Thomas Catenacci writes. None of these bills got anywhere in Texas’s GOP-controlled Legislature. Now, as he runs to represent a state that generates more than $400 billion in oil and gas revenue, Talarico says he wants to “make gasoline more affordable by investing in pipeline fortification” and “add to our hundreds of thousands of oil [and] gas” jobs. A spokesman for Talarico told the Free Beacon the candidate “knows how essential oil and gas is to Texas’s economy” and “has never supported the Green New Deal.” But Talarico’s Texas Climate Action Act was strikingly similar to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s dead-in-the-cradle federal climate resolution, which called for a carbon emissions reduction of 40 to 60 percent by 2030 compared with Talarico’s 50 percent. Talarico praised Ocasio-Cortez in 2021 for arguing that fighting climate change “is about ‘creating prosperity.’” READ MORE: Texas Senate Hopeful James Talarico Sought To Create ‘New Generation of Climate Activists’ by Mandating Climate Change Lessons in Texas Schools