WASHINGTON, DC -- With the COP-21 starting 14 days from now in Paris, the Partnership for Responsible Growth (PRG) today circulated 14 quotes in support of a carbon fee (or tax).
Boston Globe: A Carbon Fee Proposal Republicans Could Get Behind
There is a way to get congressional Republicans to tackle climate change ("Rubio and the carbon tax," Scot Lehigh, Opinion, Nov. 6) Our nonprofit met individually with 175 Senate and House members, or their aides, to sound them out on this centrist approach: Enact a carbon fee, and use half the revenue from that fee to drop the corporate tax rate, the highest in the industrial world, from 35 to 25 percent.
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Tough News to Handle on a Monday
Monday mornings are tough enough. But they are even harder to handle when the news includes items like this: "Climate change could push more than 100 million into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday.
Repeal and Replace CPP? We've got an idea.
Imagine EPA’s Clean Power Plan as a punching bag hanging from the ceiling at the local gym. On October 30 it absorbed blows from a Wall Street Journal editorial, which charged that the agency is playing games with the timetable. The opening paragraph uses phrases such as “President Obama’s palace revolution on climate” and his “takeover of the carbon economy.”