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Could Waxmans new bill offer fresh hope for a carbon tax?
2013-03-13 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Its been a few years now since Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) led an ambitious but doomed charge to get a carbon-pricing bill through Congress. But in the wake of President Obamas climate-centric State of the Union and inaugural addresses, a growing number of Democratic lawmakers are grinding out bills that would make polluters pay for their greenhouse gas emissions. Last month, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced plans to introduce a bill...
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