Some states have decided to stop waiting for Congress to take action on climate change and are trying to move ahead on their own. The list includes Oregon, Washington, and Massachusetts, where the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy held a hearing October 27 on S. 1747, authored by Senator Mike Barrett.
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Influential Voices Urging Carbon Fees
Three very influential international figures are saying that the best way to address climate change is to put a fee on carbon.
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim expressed that view October 7 during a panel discussion at the joint annual meeting of their organizations in Lima.
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Voters are Ready to Depoliticize the Climate Debate
American voters are eager to “depoliticize” climate change and clean energy, says Kristen Soltis Anderson, one of three leading Republican pollsters who conducted a survey released September 28.
“At the moment some of the louder voices in the party are dominating this debate,” she told The New York Times. “But as we move out of the entertainment phase of the (presidential) campaign and look at more of the policy platforms, there’s a way for Republicans to talk about this that depoliticizes climate.”