Ohio Governor John Kasich campaigns in Vermont.
COLCHESTER, VT — “Kasich has said before that he accepts the fact that climate change is happening, though he’s stopped short of calling for strong action on the issue. ‘I am a believer — my goodness I am a Republican — I happen to believe there is a problem with climate change. I don’t want to overreact to it, I can’t measure it all, but I respect the creation that the Lord has given us and I want to make sure we protect it,’ Kasich said in 2012.
Then, in 2015, the Ohio governor said that humans’ impact on the environment is a ‘legitimate debate” in response to a question on whether he agrees that climate change is man-made and that humans should do something about it. “We don’t want to destroy people’s jobs based on some theory that is not proven,” Kasich added. Later last year, he said that he didn’t know whether it was scientifically proven that carbon emissions are causing climate change.
Despite expressing support for renewable energy in Vermont this weekend, Kasich signed a bill in 2014 that froze Ohio’s Renewable Energy Standards for two years. Last year, however, Kasich did say that the idea of freezing the standards indefinitely was ‘unacceptable,’ and that he wanted to “work with the Ohio General Assembly to craft a bill that supports a diverse mix of reliable, low-cost energy sources while preserving the gains we have made in the state’s economy.”
— Katie Valentine, Think Progress
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