Whitehouse Warns Trump May Attack Carbon Border, A Climate ‘Lifeboat’

A key Senate Democrat is renewing calls on European officials to strictly enforce their Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), while warning that President Trump could seek to undermine the program that could be the "last lifeboat" to avoid the worst damages from climate change. “We need to really be resolved as an international community that the CBAM is indeed the last lifeboat,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said during a Nov. 6 briefing hosted by Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI)...