Senator David Perdue (R-GA) of Georgia, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2014. Prior to his election, he held no positions in public office. He was defeated in a the 2020 election in a special run-off by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA). In the Senate, Perdue served on the Armed Services, Banking, Budget, and Foreign Relations committees.
David Perdue on Climate Change
As a senator David Perdue was vocal about his denial of human-induced climate change throughout his career in Congress. On the campaign trail in 2014, Perdue attacked the Environmental Protection Agency, saying that they are “really overreaching and damaging entire industries… We’ve got to get some common sense back in Washington — in science, there’s an active debate going on.”
In 2017, David Perdue was one of 22 Republican senators who drafted a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to pull out of the Paris Agreement. In an official press release shortly after, when Trump followed through on his decision to pull the United States of the Agreement, Perdue states: “This agreement was a perfect example of Obama-era overreach in which the previous administration entered what should have been considered as a treaty without any congressional approval. The U.S. withdrawal is the next step in fulfilling President Trump’s promise to rescind burdensome regulations like the Clean Power Plan that are raising energy costs and stifling our economy, while still maintaining a seat at the table for future international climate talks.”
David Perdue and Friends
Perdue is one of Donald Trump’s closest allies in the Republican party. President Trump’s extensive history of climate change denial can be reviewed in this article from the Atlantic.
Perdue accepted donations totaling $184,250 from big oil and gas over the past three election cycles, adding to the sum total of $90 million of untraceable money that was funneled to Republican candidates from these industries from 2012 to 2016.
See Also
Cory Gardner (R-CO), Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), Martha McSally (R-AZ)
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA, 10)
Climate of Denial