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詹姆斯·塔拉里科近期在相关立场上出现反复，他批评了倡导取消石油和天然气行业的民主党人
作者：亚当·帕克，福克斯新闻
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“欢迎来到得克萨斯州”：詹姆斯·塔拉里科在曝光视频中迎接反化石燃料活动人士
得克萨斯州州众议员、民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科于2024年6月12日与第三行动组织得克萨斯分会参加了一场欢迎 Zoom 会议。第三行动是一个面向老年人的气候行动主义团体。（Vimeo/第三行动 – 2024年6月12日）
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【福克斯新闻独家报道】：福克斯新闻数字频道获取的一段曝光视频显示，参议院候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科对一个致力于取缔得克萨斯州石油和天然气行业的左翼行动主义团体大加赞赏。
塔拉里科参与了2024年6月的一场组织电话会议，庆祝第三行动组织——一个为60岁以上人群设立的气候倡导与抗议团体——扩展至“孤星之州”得克萨斯州。当时，该组织正加大力度孤立化石燃料行业，一方面向大型银行施压，要求其切断与该行业的金融联系，另一方面针对得克萨斯州墨西哥湾沿岸液化天然气（LNG）出口码头的扩建计划发起抵制行动。
“这是拯救民主、拯救我们星球的战斗前线，你们的到来恰逢其时，”时任州众议员、正处于第三届任期的塔拉里科在预先录制的发言中对该组织表示，“我期待与你们所有人携手完成这项重要工作，我只想感谢你们来到得克萨斯州。”
在随后的电话会议中，塔拉里科将气候活动人士的行动称为最高尚的事业，称其为“在最重要的时刻、最重要的地点开展的最重要工作”。
“欢迎来到得克萨斯州，”得克萨斯州州众议员、民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科在2024年6月12日的组织电话会议上对气候活动人士说道。（Vimeo/第三行动 – 2024年6月12日）
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此次电话会议两周后，第三行动得克萨斯分会呼吁“尽快全面转向可再生能源”。
塔拉里科的此番言论似乎让他近期的努力陷入矛盾：他试图将自己塑造成得克萨斯州能源工人的捍卫者，同时尖锐批评倡导取消石油和天然气生产的民主党人。
这位民主党参议院候选人同时也是筹款巨头，正试图拿下共和党已把持近40年的参议院席位，为此他正刻意与自己更为激进的立场保持距离。他需要获得独立选民和温和派选民的支持，包括在石油和天然气行业就业的47万名员工中的部分人群，才能在11月击败共和党参议院候选人肯·佩顿。
“华盛顿的政客们以为他们可以轻易取缔这个行业、这些工作岗位——这是我们必须奋起反对的，”塔拉里科在1月接受民主党众议院候选人鲍比·普利多的播客采访时表示，“我们党内太多人谈论取消石油和天然气行业。其一，这根本不切实际；其二，这会对我们州造成巨大损害，也会损害依赖得克萨斯州本土产业的整个国家。”
第三行动组织深度参与了气候运动的#StopLNG 运动，并宣称其“成功施压”拜登政府在2024年初暂停新建液化天然气出口设施。
根据该组织网站上的一份声明，第三行动得克萨斯分会还呼吁最终取消得克萨斯州墨西哥湾沿岸的液化天然气和所有化石燃料生产。
2023年3月21日，在纽约市曼哈顿举行的一场集会游行中，一名参与者手持标语。此次活动由第三行动纽约分会及相关环保组织发起，旨在向大型银行施压，要求其停止为化石燃料扩张项目提供资金。（埃里克·麦格雷戈/ LightRocket 供图）
塔拉里科的竞选团队发言人JT·恩尼斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，塔拉里科“支持液化天然气生产，并在得克萨斯州议会中投票支持相关立法以加强该产业”。
竞选团队并未澄清塔拉里科是否仍支持第三行动得克萨斯分会。
微软新闻分析师承认塔拉里科“并非温和派”，其进步主义立场与克罗克特一致
2021年，塔拉里科起草了一项激进的气候法案，该法案将对温室气体排放实施严格限制，包括到2050年较1990年水平减少90%的排放。尽管该法案将执行权留给了州监管机构，但在这个全国最大的石油和天然气生产州，如此大幅的减排目标很可能需要对化石燃料行业进行全面改革。
据《华盛顿自由灯塔报》报道，这位参议院候选人还在当年提出了一项立法，要求在K-12学校开设气候变化课程，以“激励下一代气候活动人士”。
到2025年，塔拉里科在立法立场上表现出对石油和天然气行业的更多支持。他支持一项旨在通过州际合作推动液化天然气生产的法案，还支持一项决议，该决议提议通过宪法修正案，将公共资金重新分配给石油和天然气主产区的基础设施项目。
得克萨斯州总检察长肯·佩顿，共和党提名的参议院候选人，于2026年5月26日在得克萨斯州普莱诺的 runoff 选举之夜活动上发表讲话。（安特拉尼克·塔维提安/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
塔拉里科在2024年6月赞扬第三行动得克萨斯分会成立之际，该组织因协助组织持续的气候抗议活动而获得全国关注。抗议活动针对纽约花旗集团总部，向该银行施压，要求其停止为新的化石燃料项目提供资金。
该组织创始人、环保活动家比尔·麦吉本在2024年夏天带领“第三行动成员”举行了一场模拟葬礼游行和“躺尸抗议”，封锁了该银行总部的入口。在其“华尔街热浪之夏”运动结束时，该组织吹嘘约有200名成员在这些 disruptive 行动中被逮捕。
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在得克萨斯州组织电话会议期间，麦吉本将得克萨斯州称为气候运动的关键前线，因为该州在化石燃料生产中占据举足轻重的地位。
“你们那里拥有全球一半的碳氢化合物，还有太多的碳氢化合物企业高管，”他说，“不要把这看作一个问题，而要把它看作一个机遇。你们可以做成很多大事，甚至比我们在佛蒙特州能做到的还要多。”
WATCH: Unearthed video shows leftist Senate hopeful celebrating anti-fossil fuel group’s arrival in Texas
June 17, 2026 1:02pm EDT / Fox News
James Talarico recently flip-flopped on that stance when he criticized Democrats who advocate for eliminating oil and gas
By Adam Pack, Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6398578379112
‘Welcome to Texas’: James Talarico greets anti-fossil fuel activists in unearthed video
State Rep. James Talarico, D-Texas, participated in a welcome Zoom call with the Texas chapter of Third Act, a climate activism group for seniors, on June 12, 2024. (Vimeo/Third Act – June 12, 2024)
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FIRST ON FOX: Senate candidate James Talarico lavished praise on a left-wing activism group that worked to eliminate Texas’ oil and gas industry, in an unearthed video obtained by Fox News Digital.
Talarico participated in a June 2024 organizing call celebrating the expansion of Third Act, a climate advocacy and protest group for individuals over 60, into the Lone Star State. At the time, the organization was ramping up efforts to isolate the fossil-fuel industry by pressuring major banks to cut financial ties with the sector and targeting the buildout of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Texas Gulf Coast.
“This is the frontline in the fight to save democracy and save our planet, and so your arrival couldn’t come at a better time,” Talarico, who was serving in his third term as a state representative, told the group in pre-recorded remarks. “I look forward to working alongside all of you in this important work, and I just want to thank you for coming to Texas.”
Later on the call, Talarico described the climate activists’ efforts as the highest calling, describing it as “as the most important work in the most important time in the most important place.”
“Welcome to Texas,” State Rep. James Talarico, D-Texas, told the climate activists on the June 12, 2024 organizing call.((Vimeo/Third Act – June 12, 2024)
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Two weeks after that call, Third Act Texas called for a transition to “100% renewable resources as soon as possible.”
Talarico’s comments appear to complicate his recent efforts to position himself as a defender of Texas energy workers while sharply criticizing Democrats who advocate eliminating oil and gas production.
The Democratic Senate nominee and fundraising juggernaut is seeking to flip a Senate seat held by Republicans for nearly four decades by distancing himself from his more radical stances. He will likely need support from independent and moderate voters, including some of the 470,000 people employed in the oil and gas industry, to defeat GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton in November.
“The idea that politicians in Washington think they can just eliminate this industry, eliminate these jobs — it’s something we’re going to have to fight against,” Talarico said on a podcast in January with Democratic House candidate Bobby Pulido. “Too many people in our party talk about eliminating oil and gas. And one, it’s just not practical and two, it would do so much damage to our state and do damage to our entire country, which relies on our industry here in Texas.”
Third Act was heavily involved in the climate movement’s #StopLNG campaign and boasted that it “successfully pressured” the Biden administration to pause new LNG export facilities in early 2024.
The group’s Texas chapter also calls for the eventual elimination of LNG and all fossil fuel production on the Texas Gulf Coast, according to a statement on its website.
A participant holds a sign at a rally and march in Manhattan, New York City, on March 21, 2023, organized by Third Act NYC and allied environmental groups to pressure major banks to stop financing fossil fuel expansion.(Erik McGregor/LightRocket)
Campaign spokesman JT Ennis told Fox News Digital that Talarico “supports LNG production and backed legislation to strengthen it in the Texas legislature.”
The campaign did not clarify if Talarico still supports Third Act Texas.
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In 2021, Talarico authored an aggressive climate bill that would have enacted strict caps on greenhouse gas emissions, including a 90% reduction below 1990 levels by 2050. While the measure left implementation to state regulators, such drastic emissions reductions in the nation’s largest oil- and gas-producing state would have likely required sweeping changes to the fossil-fuel industry.
The Senate hopeful also introduced legislation that year requiring climate change lessons in K-12 schools to “inspire the next generation of climate activists,” The Washington Free Beacon reported.
By 2025, Talarico took positions on legislation indicating more support for the oil and gas industry. He backed backed legislation aimed at boosting the LNG production through interstate cooperation and supported a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment that would redirect public funds to infrastructure projects in regions home to significant oil and gas production.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Republicans’ Senate nominee, speaks during a runoff election night event in Plano, Texas, on May 26, 2026.(Antranik Tavitian/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Talarico’s praise of Third Act Texas’ launch in June 2024 came as the group gained national attention for helping orchestrate sustained climate protests outside Citigroup’s headquarters in New York City to pressure the bank to halt investments in new fossil-fuel projects.
The group’s founder, environmental activist Bill McKibben, led “Third Actors” in staging a mock funeral procession and “die-ins” during the summer of 2024 that blocked the entrance to the bank’s headquarters. At the end of its Summer of Heat on Wall Street campaign, the group bragged that around 200 of its members were arrested during the disruptive actions.
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During the Texas organizing call, McKibben described Texas as a critical front in the climate movement because of its outsize role in fossil-fuel production.
“You’ve got, you know, half the hydrocarbons in the world down there, and too many of the hydrocarbon executives,” he said. “Don’t think of it as a problem, think of it as an opportunity. You can get an awful lot done, even more than we can up in Vermont.”
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