Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other top Republicans to discuss climate-change policy amid a summer of record-breaking heat waves and wildfires, according to people familiar with the matter.
The meeting, which took place Friday in McCarthy’s Washington office with more than a dozen Republican lawmakers, included discussion of messaging on the issue in a way that comports with conservative values, the people said.
Schwarzenegger also visited the White House to talk about climate policy, according to other people familiar with the session. He met with John Podesta, a Biden adviser on clean energy, and other senior staff in the West Wing.
