The official platform of the Texas Republican party is explicit. It proposes the abolition of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, supports the reclassification of carbon dioxide as a "non-pollutant", and opposes what it calls "environmentalism, or climate change' initiatives that obstruct legitimate business interests and private property use".

Abbott and other top state Republicans are openly skeptical of climate crisis science. In 2022, when Dallas was hit by colossal floods, reporters tried and failed to get the governor even to utter the words "climate change".