Democrats Float Series Of Carbon Pricing Bills Despite Lack Of Priority

March 11, 2021
Key Democratic senators have recently introduced -- or are publicly discussing -- a series of bills that would impose some sort of price on carbon emissions even though the Biden administration and other lawmakers have signaled that Democrats are not putting carbon pricing at the center of their climate change agenda. The legislative activity suggests that the idea of carbon taxes or other pricing programs as a climate mitigation strategy remains under active consideration even as most observers and many...


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