Climate Politics Today: The View from Washington

Joel B. Stronberg
8 min readOct 5, 2023

The article first appeared on my blog site Civil Notion

Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made history the other day. He was the first sitting Speaker of the House to be fired. Talk about being hoisted on your own petard. One congressman was heard to say after the vote that the former speaker’s “chickens finally came back to roost.” More on that in a moment.

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Joel B. Stronberg

Stronberg is a thought leader in the climate community with over 40 years of experience covering environmental and sustainability issues as a freelancer.