Lauren Boebert’s Anti-Climate Legislation Is a Self-Enrichment Scheme
The Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert is spearheading amendments that could gut Democrats’ climate bill — while also benefiting her husband’s fossil fuel business.

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert speaking at the 2021 Young Women’s Leadership Conference, organized by Turning Point USA, in June 2021. (Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons)
Republican firebrand Representative Lauren Boebert last week began spearheading a package of amendments that could both gut landmark climate legislation and enrich her husband’s fossil fuel business.
During the first markup of Democrats’ reconciliation bill, the first-term Colorado congresswoman authored several initiatives designed to block higher fees for drilling on federal lands and for methane emissions.
Terra Energy Partners, a Houston-based oil and gas company that drills on federal lands, paid Boebert’s husband, Jayson, roughly $940,000 in 2019 and 2020 as a consultant, according to her latest financial disclosure report. Boebert failed to disclose her husband’s 2019 work for Terra Energy Partners in her congressional financial disclosure form filed last year.