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BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, joined David Asman on Fox Business to discuss the climate agreement between the U.S. and China to reduce emissions of methane and other greenhouse gases. The agreement was announced following a meeting this week between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping.

Additionally, they discussed the administration’s recent move to reissue a sanctions waiver, giving Iran access to more than $10 billion. Excerpts and video below.

On the U.S., China Climate Agreement:

“I am disgusted by it. If you're leaning on John Kerry for counsel, it doesn't matter how tough you are, or how bright you might think you are. John Kerry has been on a mission to transfer his climate guilt and environmental guilt to polluting countries for a couple of decades now. […] Once again, we get rolled by dictators, despots, and terrorists, while our president runs around the country pretending he's some sort of geopolitical expert, and all he does is he just caves to them, and they roll over us. It's disgusting.” 

“It's very much a subsidy for China while they pollute the world and so we're going to feel better about ourselves by having more electric vehicles and battery charged, battery run cars, solar panels—all of which are made by very, very filthy operations in China—making us further dependent on an enemy, another critical supply chain that we've acquiesced to our adversary. By the way, this deal they're bragging about has no teeth. It's unbinding in every way, and even if it was binding, David, as we know, the Chinese Communist Party does not keep up their end of the bargain. So, there is no deal with them that’s good.”

On U.S. Reducing Green House Gas Emissions:

“We should also just stop beating up on ourselves. The United States has reduced greenhouse gas emissions more in the last decade than the next eight reducing countries combined. We literally now have less than a third of the emissions of China, the number one emitter. What makes us think they're somehow [going to] clean up just because we're willing to? It’d be like Israel asking Hamas for a ceasefire. Israel lays down its arms and then expects Hamas to do the same thing—it doesn't happen.”

“Natural gas can be one of the greatest tools, a piece of geopolitical rebalancing of power than anything as much, if not more even than weapons of war. We ought to be utilizing natural gas to both bring down emissions but grow the American economy and make the world safer. […] American natural gas shipped to Europe in liquefied form, reduces 50 percent fewer greenhouse gases than Vladimir Putin’s natural gas shipped in a pipeline in Europe, and so there's just all kinds of reasons why we should be doing exactly the opposite of this administration.”

On the $10 Billion Iran Sanctions Waiver:

“Well, it's interesting because Iraq is a major energy producing country of its own. It should not be dependent on Iran for electricity. So, let's start there. Let's start with the fact that we have this ally in Iraq that has all of this oil and natural gas, and shouldn’t they be using that for their own purposes? […] I think we're facilitating a lot of bad behavior, David. I don't want to Iraq to not have electricity, but I'd like them to produce their own rather than be dependent on Iran. We have big problems and these dictators, despots, and terrorists, again, are making us look foolish, which seems to be fairly easy for them these days.”