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Republican US Senator Cassidy proposes 'foreign pollution fee' to stem climate change (www.cnn.com)
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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.

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[-] pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 year ago

It's funny how Republicans must always find the racist/xenophobic angle of any issue and run with it.

In this case it might actually be OK, just because we're in a climate emergency.

I do wonder what Americans would say if China slapped a similar tariff to their products, though. It might be the closest we can get to a carbon tax, lol.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It would effectively be a carbon tax, but not for US companies, right? That's better than no carbon tax in my book.

[-] pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Let's hope other countries get mad and create their own tariffs.

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