Despite her claims that the US has a moral obligation to address climate change, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spent nearly $500,000 on private flights since October 2020.
According to Federal Election Commission filings, the California Democrat’s campaign paid Virginia-based Advanced Aviation Team a total of $423,707.62 for travel services on ten occasions between October 2020 and December 2021.
The Pelosi campaign also paid California-based Clay Lacy Aviation $65,457.23 in January of last year, bringing the campaign’s total private jet expenses to $489,164.85.
Pelosi paid Advanced Aviation $67,604.93 in August of last year. Three months later, Pelosi led a delegation of Democratic lawmakers to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, where she framed addressing the climate problem as a religious matter.
Last September, Pelosi was chastised for saying that cooperating with China on climate change should take precedence despite Beijing’s human rights violations and hostile military postures toward Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Former Senator John Kerry has also been chastised for using a private plane while serving as Vice President Joe Biden’s climate czar.
Kerry defended flying to Iceland on a private plane to accept a climate change leadership award in 2019.
