Jim Matheson: “the Blue Dog principles say, look, there's broad scientific consensus that climate change is happening. Blue Dogs also…”

“the Blue Dog principles say, look, there's broad scientific consensus that climate change is happening. Blue Dogs also believe it's taken place over a significant period of time. We need to make sure we get this right with a methodical approach, and it may very well be a long-term approach to try to change the direction we're going, but we want to make sure we get it right. There are some folks who want to act very quickly and in a radical way, and that may not be the best solution. We also wanted to make sure we had a global approach. If we simply enact policies in this country, we may be exporting jobs and pollution overseas, and that doesn't get us to where we need to be because this is a global issue. So the Blue Dogs want to have an approach that tries to encourage global participation, an approach that does not disproportionately affect one industry or one sector. It needs to be an economy-wide approach in how we look at this issue and how we try to reduce our carbon footprint in affecting the climate change issue. So I think the Blue Dogs have laid out a framework that makes a lot of sense.”