by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As appearing in the Washington Times
Reject the repackaged green agenda
It’s that time of year again, when the world’s climate elite converge on New York for their annual pilgrimage. Climate Week 2025 is filling the skies with private jets and the streets with motorcades, while in between cocktail receptions and panels, the emissaries of environmental virtue instruct the rest of us to do with less.
The United Nations General Assembly is also in town, offering a convenient stage for the political left’s global climate agenda. For decades, it has imposed costly mandates — emissions targets, fuel standards and regulatory frameworks — that punish the U.S. energy sector, push allies toward unreliable renewables and allow major emitters such as China to ignore deadline after deadline without consequence.
That agenda is on full display at Climate Week, this time with a carefully chosen figure meant to lend bipartisan credibility.
Benji Backer, the 27-year-old founder of the American Conservation Coalition and Nature Is Nonpartisan, is billed as the conservative voice of the climate movement. Polished and adept at wrapping himself in MAGA-friendly language, he is precisely the sort of figure the movement hopes will render its program more palatable to young conservatives.
