Lawmaker blames GOP for energy policy's failure » Ventura County Star

HELENA, Mont. — HELENA, Mont. (AP) - State lawmakers failed to come up with a proposed energy policy over the legislative interim because of the Republican committee members' denial of climate change, a Democratic senator said Friday.

Sen. Ron Erickson, of Missoula, told a group of industry leaders at Helena conference on Montana energy the science is clear, but that GOP resistance prevented the interim committee from forwarding a bill to the full Legislature.

"We had a really difficult time in the interim committee on energy. I will blame that on the fact that Republican members of that committee do not think that climate change is real, nor do they think that it is caused by man. And they are wrong," Erickson said.
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Republican Rep. Harry Klock of Harlowtown, chairman of the House Federal Relations Energy and Telecommunications Committee, addressed Erickson's charge directly.

"I believe in climate change. It changes every day out here. I just don't believe in global warming," he said.