Amid Budget Debate, Podesta Sees Polluter-Pays GHG Fee As ‘Attractive’

John Podesta, a former climate advisor to President Barack Obama and founder of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), says Senate Democrats have floated an “attractive” draft proposal to impose a fee on fossil fuel companies for past greenhouse gas emissions, as part of their emerging budget “reconciliation” bill. “A carbon tax is off the table in this reconciliation package, . . . but there are elements in the package that have the effect of attempting to...