Carbon Tax Group Bolsters Plan In Bid To Court Environmentalists

An industry-backed group pushing Congress to enact a carbon tax-and-dividend policy is adding significant new details to its proposal, including a new suggestion that it might only seek to preempt EPA’s climate regulatory authority over stationary sources while allowing the agency to retain carbon rules for mobile sources. Also of note, the Climate Leadership Council (CLC), a group that includes a number of large corporations, is no longer calling for “an end to federal and state tort liability for emitters,”...