Cassidy proposes 'foreign pollution fee' to stem climate change | CNN Politics
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Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy tells CNN’s Kasie Hunt that China needs to do more to fight climate change.

He’s been talking about it for months, but looks like he’s going to actually introduce it. An embedded-emissions tariff like this was proposed during early draft outlines of Build Back Better, but didn’t survive negotiation.

I’ll note that his idea of ‘more methane gas instead of coal’ is something which might have been a reasonable intermediate step 30 years ago. It’s not now, in a world where wind and solar are the cheap option.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
    72·
    1 year ago

    Seems like a good, bipartisan policy proposal. So I’m sure republicans will invent some reason that it’s bad.

    • jmcs
      10·
      1 year ago

      They will at least try to carve out exceptions for pollution caused by order of the US multinationals and make the proposal useless in the process.