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John Kerry was tapped last week by President-elect Joe Biden for the post of “climate czar,” which amounts to an opening move for the incoming administration’s implementation of what could be a radically aggressive environmentalist agenda. It will continue with America’s resubmission to the Paris climate change agreement, rebooting of the ambitious regulatory regime fostered under President Barack Obama, and probably whatever snippets of the "Green New Deal" the administration can impose without the help of the Senate. All of this will cause compounding economic harm in exchange for little, if any, environmental benefit.
What it also does, however, is offer an opportunity for Republicans, if they care to take advantage of it, to present a reasoned, workable alternative approach to environmental stewardship, and reclaim a mantle they lamentably ceded almost entirely to the Left decades ago.