Saturday, February 23, 2013

GOP can be part of climate change solution

Daily Camera: A carbon tax bill that gives revenue back to households? Now we're getting somewhere. That's what Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) placed on the table when she and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced plans to introduce "carbon-fee-and-dividend" legislation. Their proposal places a fee on coal, oil and natural gas at the first point of sale and then rebates a substantial part of the revenue to the public as monthly "dividends," either by check or electronically. At a recent press conference to...

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